Nothingness: It is possible precisely because the games are chosen randomly and independently. With 2 sections of 5 players, there are 20 games, each of which is equally likely to be of any given type, regardless of how the other 19 games are assigned.

If you tossed 2 coins, would you be surprised if they came up both heads or both tails? I hope not; they're as likely to be the same as different. What if you tossed 20 coins and they all came up the same? Of course that's much less likely, but it's still possible; in fact you should expect it to happen, on average, once in every set of 524288 sets of 20 tosses.

What if, instead of tossing 20 coins, you take 20 hats, put into each hat 11 cards marked 1 to 11, thoroughly mix the cards in each hat, and draw one card from each hat? Will you be surprised if you don't draw any cards marked 2, 5, or 9? Maybe such an outcome isn't very likely, but certainly it's possible; the only alternative would be for the cards in each hat to be influenced somehow by the cards in the other hats.

Of course that last example is equivalent to how the games in your tournament were assigned. The following table, if I've crunched the numbers correctly, shows the approximate probability of exactly n game types being represented when 20 games are assigned in a random tournament with 11 possible game types.

 n   Prob.
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 1   0.0000000000000000000163508
 2   0.0000000000000857251
 3   0.000000000854404
 4   0.000000532498
 5   0.0000617406
 6   0.00212913
 7   0.0275495
 8   0.150025
 9   0.356337
10   0.351113
11   0.112784

So, if you create many such tournaments, you should expect to see 9 or 10 game types in the first round most of the time. 15% of the time you'll get only 8 types, and all 11 types will be played only 11% of the time.

I jsut created a random game tourney consisting of 11 different games. 3 of which have Zero games in the first rd of play? How is this possible? they are almost all 2 types of the 11 games chosen.

Pedro Martínez: I did as well and had no reply, so I have quit now.

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gambler104: Just change the max number of players to six, and then the tournament will be able to start.

Pedro Martínez: It can't be started because 5 players is the max limit so first place only receives 87.5 or 87 brains. But according to BK rules, first prize must be at least double the entry fee of 50 brains. Since 87.5 can't increase since no more players can join, it will never start because first prize will never reach 100 brains.

Rose: It's possible that tournament creation is more a game of skill than of luck.

Rose: I sent him a PM about two weeks ago......

Pedro Martínez: With any luck at all the tournament creator will take a look at his own tournament and figure it out? We can hope!

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Pedro Martínez: Don't speek you langwige that!

Can please somebody explain to Universal Eyes that this tourney will never be started:
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Thanks it worked.. thats really Bizzare!?!?!

If you are using the "rich text editor", then copy - paste links will not work - you have to click on the little "chain link" icon and put the information in there for it to work.

If you are NOT using the "rich text editor", then copy paste of the link will work.

Nothingness: sorry- there's a Computers board..maybe someone there can help ya...wish I could help more.
Good luck with your tourney tho

 well i tried it about 5x and each time it did the same thing, i tried different ways also.

Nothingness: hmmmmmm..then I don't know why it didn't work for you...try again???

 that is what i did i just copied and pasted it from my addy bar....

Nothingness: I copied and pasted from my web address bar at the top of my page. Is that what you did?

I just went to the tourney page and copied and pasted...don't know why it didn't work...the link looks exactly the same:

Randomness

Nothingness:

  I just created a random tourney all are welcome. Hopefully the link works.

Randomness

 ok the link dont work how do i creat a link? i copy pasted it but that only gave you a link that you had to copy paste. how can i do it so that i can click it and it will take you there directly?

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