I've changed it so that it's 100+ for signups. :) So if you're interested. :)

I probably should have left that a bit more open :)

I would sign up Mr Dodger but my rating is an embarrassing 911, below your 1000-1800 range! LOL!!

Greetings. Am hoping to find about 4 more for the U1800 tourney. Unrated players elibible too.

Just been looking at the winners page, thank you Fencer its great, just what we need. :-)

My Tourney will be starting in about 24 hours. Take a look and see if we can at least get 4 players on the games that have less.

I have created my 4th tournament. 2 games per 2 players, 5 days per move. Everyone is welcome to join. Good luck to everyone :-)

so you won a brain membership? Lol giving it away?

congrats Molly! That is great!

Heyyy, nice one Molly!! Glad it went to someone so deserving! Congrats :oD

for winning my first brain pawn prize tourney here!!

BBW: helped you with the Crowded :o)

Message Edit: Tournament has now started - Thanks to you all who signed up.

Since it worked for Kevin, I'll try it!

I have a tournament on the tournament page (BIG BAD WOLF presents: ALL 5 Gammon Games!) - and it is time to start, but I'm short players for the Backgammon Race & Crowded Backgammon games.

So if you are interested, please take a look and sign up. I will start the tournament once 4 players are in each (or in about 24 hours... what ever happens first)

Thanks!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Kevin: I am in :-)

I need one more player to sign up for the Anti Line4 tourmament in my Line4 and variants tournament. Then i will start it.

And wheres all the checkers players too?!! My all checkers tourney starts tomorrow and theres only 'normal' checkers and parachute checkers with enough players to go ahead! Come on checkers players, get signing!!

Hey... Where are all the anti-reversi players???? I've signed up for quite a few anti reversi tourneys, and there is rarely enough to start the tourney. So, I decided to create my own, and do a little advertising to get people to join! So come on! Join the Hot-Rod anti reversi tourney by April 5! LOL.. what a goofy name, but oh well! There are 4 signed up now, so this tourney will definitely be happening.. Let's get some more!
:-D

i think there should be an option to take yourself out of a tournament once you know you didn't win. like after you played all your games and stuff. that way you don't have to wait for everyone else to finish their games and you can join another tournament.

Just a reminder - you have about five days left to join my third Spider Line4 tournament, and about a week and 5 days to join my Line4 and Variants tournament. Anyone can join.

Good luck to everyone who joins :-)

10 or more.

<Fencer--->
Walter: What "cannot sign up" message does it show for you? ///////
There was no message, just a repeating of the sign up page.

Fencer-->You were right, there was a dead record in the database. Please try to sign up again, it should work now.//////////
You have fixed it! I was able to join Dragon's Professional with out any problems.
Thank you very much for handling it and doing so on such short notice. This tournament says I need 10 slots available. Does that mean 10 or more, or 11 or more? I need to know so that when I finish some games I won't add more with rematches. I currently have 13 going.

Congratulations to Rose, Clive and Ellieoop who are the joint winners of my first 6x6 reversi Tourney.

Sign up now for my new Reversi Challenge.

You were right, there was a dead record in the database. Please try to sign up again, it should work now.

Walter: What "cannot sign up" message does it show for you?

I have 13 games going at the moment and am trying to join "Dark and Atomic Challenge (Dark Chess)". It is in the single game format and the note says to have at least 5 slots open. I have 7, but it won't let me sign up. "grenv" had a tournament posting a few weeks ago called "Dark Chess Challenge #2", that I had signed up for. As far as I can tell, he cancelled it and then posted the Dark and Atomic tournaments. The only thing I can think of is that cancelling the tournament left my name on the list somehow even though it is no longer visible on the tournament board. Any help or ideas for me? Thank you.

Kevin - Interesting question, and since I like to test things - I just tried to make a tournament, and selected Line4 game at the top and bottom - and it only created 1 game.

So there is your answer! :-)

Yep, it does look like it works. I didn't try it, but i wonder what would happen if you selected say Line4 as the game for the tournament, and also checked the Line4 box at the bottom. Would it make 2? :-)

But he joined another fellowship and posted to the board within the last few days. Sorry to be jumping on the band wagon, but it really messed things up for everyone.

Kevin: Thanks for testing this new feature, looks like it works :-)

I have created my first Line4 and Variants tournament. 5 days per move, open to everyone. Sign ups will be until April 7th. Good luck everyone :-)

I have created some new tournaments for Three Checks, Extinction and Dark Chess. Please check them out and join up if you like. Also, message me with any ideas and problems you find, etc. Thanx.

If you can think of a way, Dmitri, I'd like to hear it! It IS unfair to everyone, I think they could have let the tournament creator know if there was an emergency requiring that many days off.
Maybe they were just messing with the calendar and not realised they'd set so many!!! LOL!
I have to say in the guys defence though, he WAS on a hell of a lot to begin with, and he's normally very nice and polite, I wouldn't have expected this from him. I'm sure there is good reason.

WHat the person in question did (enter a oturnament and immediately go on a 30 day vacation) is a blatant abuse of the vacation privelage. One should not sign up for a tournament if he kows he is about to go on a long vacation. But, maybe some emergency came up at the last moment? There could be a reasonable explanation. That said, I still think there should be a way around having everyone held up. There is a way, but I am not goign to suggest it just yet.

Perhaps giving the creator of the tournament control over the amount of vacation allowed to be used in one block before the tournament starts. Then you wouldn't have to enter a tournament if you knew the time wasn't long enough for you.
I can't believe that someone is allowed to go on vacation for 45 days in a tournament without getting permission. In a side game, it only effects two people. In a tournament it is very unfair to everyone involved. Plus there's always them poor sports that like to drag things out when they're in a losing position.

Ok, but even then...probably about 90% of them are obvious as to what game it is. And even if that box a convenient thing to have (which it certainly would be), it would be simply that: a convenience. Not a necessity. But it doesn't really matter. I would assume Fencer will do something like that when he gets time. Just be patient :-)

Kevin, you are forgetting the hundred or so that are already in progress or have been completed. I am a studious player, I like to review games. So, I have to find the specific tournaments from among the entire list, not just the 32 that are in the sign up process.

I agree that a box like that would be a good feature, but right now there are 32 tournaments to sign up for: 30 of them make the game clear just from the name, and the other 2 you could probably guess. Or if not, it's one page to load to find out. When there are hundreds of tournaments to sign up for, absolutely, you shouldn't have to look through them all. But right now, it's not a big deal.

There is a simple way to do this that would make the most sense and appease everyone--An option box that says "Show the following types of tournaments: "

and the individual player would then select one or more types.

I wish to view only pente and Keryo pente tournaments. Regardless of whether the name of the tournament says it, why should I have to find them among a hundred or more tournaments?

True that most tournaments have the name in them, but there have been some that have not.

What I would like to see on the tournament page - after the name, have (gametype) - like it is shown in people profile.

For example:
- Hannelore's 1st Pente (Pente)
- Cat Lovers Unite (Spider Line4)

And if it is an "all" game, put "all" - or if it is just a select few (which I think Fencer is working on), maybe put "multiple games" or something.

But if something like this is done - then the person creating the tournament does not need to put the name of the game in the name if they do not want to! :-)

True, there are a lot of new tournaments. However, more or less all of them tell you what the game is right in the name, or have a generic name if they contain all games. Personally, i don't think there are enough tournaments to have a seperate list for each game, although i wouldn't be against having a list box at the top that allows you to select "All" or a specific game type, to show all tournaments or just tournaments that have a certain game in it.

I agree, there are so many tournaments now, it is cumbersome to go through to find the right games, it would be great to have them grouped into game types.

I find the page a bit cumbersome. Perhaps someone can help me view it more easily. IS there an option to view only tournaments of a certain type, such as "pente tournaments only" or "Keryo tournaments only?"

When i look at the page now, there are just dozens and doizens of tournaments, and I am looking for those two in particular, and they are hard to find among all the others.

Alos, is there a tournament winners page? If not, there should be, and it should be sorted by particular game.

Pioneer, I have a problem with that same player. That person apparently joined all kinds of tourneys and then put in all those vacation days. He/she has 45 days to make a move on the game that we have in a tourney, and has only made one move! It may be perfectly legal here, but EXTREMELY rude, in my opinion. I too like the vacation days, but what this person did is a little unreasonable.

the opportunity and learn from better players? I won't advance very far stuck at a lower rating. I thought brainlink was above typical chess snobbery.

Brain pawns play for free. They don't pay anything and get a lot for free. I think they're lucky to even get to join one tournament, IMO. If you would like to join more than one tournament, by all means, upgrade your membership :-)

Nah, you can't put limits on the holiday days!! We're given 30 days a year, and if someone uses them all in one go then thats their problem. There could be a good reason for it, illness, a hospital stay etc..
I know it affects others but it goes with the membership, and we might be glad of it one day. Of course a note to our opponents to explain why we'd used that much holiday time would be polite, but not a necessity.
I've not used any holiday days yet, and I can't forsee me using any this year. But if I had to use all 30 in one go it would be for a dire emergency!

I think that is one of the flaws on BrainKing (for BrainPawns that is). Even though you are done with your games in the tournament, you have to wait for all other users in the section to complete their games before you can join another tournament. (Something I pointed out awhile back)

... but then again, I guess it is a good flaw since that is one of the reasons I bought a membership because I did not want to wait for everyone else to finish.

But you bring up a point about the Vacations. I think vacations are a very good thing on this site, but 30 days is a long time! (esicially if that is "added" into the 2 days a week you get off) You could be gone for about 40 days strait without timing out!

Maybe there should be a limit - like you can not use more then 2 weeks in any giving month (or something like that)

I would like to enter another tmt., but I get a prompt saying that as a Brain Pawn I can only play in one. However, I am finished in that event (MainBrain #2, Atomic chess) and the only player with games remaining is on vacation for a month!? Is there any remedy for this? Why did a player who knew he would be away so long enter this tmt. anyhow?

I echo these thoughts. I apologize for posting in the wrong place, I was not yet familiar with the discussion boards, and we have moved the Keryo discussion ot the right place.

On a tournament note, I am pleased to note that the 2 game sets have been put in place for tournaments.

Let me apoloigze for some of that in this discussion board. I'm not really sure how it got going, but hey one thing leads to another and the next thing you know ol' Jed's a millionaire. :)
Anyways, it appears that there's a Keryo Pente discussion board now and I've even posted a few things there already. I'm just learning my way around this site. Next time I post to this section, it will have something to do with tournaments.
Walter