If a tournament has a prize in Brains, and a player has enough victories so that no one can catch him/her (in other words, so that his/her winning the tournament is assured), is the Brain-Prize awarded immediately, or does he/she have to wait until all games by all players have been completed?

"GERRY": Gerry! I cant resist anymore. Who is Old Red? Lmbo!

Undertaker.:I'd vote yes to this one! 

FrancescoLR: I agree with Francesco. Besides, there're players that refuse to use auto pass in games where is possible and that's ridiculous. Auto pass was created specially for that players play more fast in particular situations, i guess, but many of these players don't use it, trying win for time-out or other strange reason. :(

coan.net: all would depends on the type of games .. i agree with 10 maximun because i can create one tourney with all games wich multiply per 10 times makes over 100 tourneis for each .... so could go up to 1000 tourneis ...
the problem truly is that there are players in brainking that sign for tourneis and then move every month so i am having problems with players that i invite for mega tourney wich got stucked in tourneis forever so i will have to ask the Good Fencer to release them .. ( one player started a tourney 5 yrs ago and he hasnt even finish 1 game that is ridicoulos .. those players should be banned from playing in tournament forever ! )
so do not worry about how many tourneis we can create but who is signed ...

rednaz23: I've agreed with that for a long time - but 10 is too low. (for example, when i was making a lot of "fast start" 5 player tournaments, I could easily make 15-20 tournaments... almost all would fill up and start in the first few days.

But a limit of 20 or 25 public tournaments waiting for "sign-up" would be something I would support.

Plus I would LOVE to see the the "time for deadline" be changed from the current 29 days after start to something more resonable like 5 or 10 days after start date.... which if someone REALLY wants it to wait longer can easily change the start date to keep it on there longer. (Most tournaments I see go a few days past will stay on there for the whole time with very few getting more players... so no point keeping them open for the next month.)

Congrat's go's out to all the WINNER's of my tournament's

ENJOY ALL OF THEM & HAVE FUN PLAYING IN THEM

As Old Red alway's said GOD BLESS

 SUMMERTIME 2009

I am glad that BrainKing allows users to create tournaments.  It is a very nice feature that I think few if any other sites allow.  I would like to make a request to tweak BrainKings tourney structure:

Can we set a limit for open tourney's any individaul can have to, let's say, 10?

I'm sure many others agree with me...  so let's discuss...

JOIN ANY OF THESE FELLOWSHIPS AND YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INVITATION ( ONLY ONE ) TO PLAY IN MEGA TOURNEY WITH PRIZES UP TO THE 10TH PLACE ( or maybe 16th place ?? )(only if you join one of the fellowships you will be invite )( i have seen many new pawns so i will change rules little bit )( I invite old pawns so former members of brainking in one tourney by invitations only ) MUST BE FAIR WITH MEMBERS OF BRAINKING AND TO THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED THE FELLOWSHIPS

☼ ¥εstεrday's Wørld ☼

Charity's place

THE IMMORTALS


HELLRAISER CLUB
Hellraiser club

Monkeys Swinging Madhouse
Monkeys Swinging Madhouse

FIRST TOURNEY (BY INVITATION ONLY ) (16 players qualify for 2nd round)
WIN A BLACK ROOK AND BECOME ONE OF THE ETERNALS !!

SECOND TOURNEY (BY INVITATION ONLY ) (16 players qualify for 2nd round)
VINCI LA TORRE NERA E DIVENTA UN ETERNO!!

THIRD TOURNEY (invite only ) (8 players)
GANHA UMA "TORRE NEGRA" E TORNA-TE UM DOS ETERNOS

FOURTH TOURNEY (only invitation)(8 players)
Gane una Torre Negra y sea uno de los eternos!!

FIFTH TOURNEY (only invite)(8 players)
VYHRAJ ČERNOU VĚŽ A STAŇ SE DOŽIVOTNÍM ČLENEM

SIXTH TOURNEY (INVITE ONLY)(MEMBERS OF ALL OTHER FELLOWSHIPS) (4 PLAYERS QUALIFY)
"SİYAH KALEYİ KAZAN, SONSUZLUĞA KATIL !!


EIGHT TOURNEY open (pawns only !! ) (2 players)(need 1 slot only)(if invite in other you will be removed )
WIN A BLACK ROOK AND BECOME ONE OF THE ETERNALS !!

Tuesday: Keep one brain just in case. :o)

Tuesday: Sure. I am in a few fellowships that do tournaments like that, so I know it is possible. I think if you just set it up, and say that the prize is 200 brains, and PM Fencer, he will make sure it happens. Maybe one of the Big/Little Bosses who set up those types of tournaments frequently will clairify, here.

FrancescoLR: Oups, i didn't see that. Sorry for the message and, this way, i agree with you, Francesco. ;)

St Patty's 2009!

ONLY 6 SLOTS left! and
ONLY 4 HOURS LEFT TO SIGN UP!

Keeping with tradition I've got another St Patricks Day Tournament out there but I'm changing things up a bit this time.

Only 64 people will be allowed into this years tournament since it's Single Elimination with a '2 wins to advance' match format. The Single Elimination is an experiment to make things more head to head and skill centric, hopefully taking away the random advantage a player can sometimes get over another in a section. (for example: where a player times out in just one game and gives an advantage to one of two other equal players.)

I'm keeping the same time limits as last years (2 days per move with vacation allowed) since that seemed to work rather well. Cash prizes are kind of a pain for Fencer to deal with so I've decided to set the prize as one year Brain Rook (approximately 50$ US value).

So you have to ask yourself, do you feel you have the pente luck of the Irish? well sign up and see how far you can make it through the grid! On St. Patricks Day (March 17, 2009) the tourney begins! Good luck to all players, I look forward to playing you across the board!


PAST TOURNAMENT RESULTS!

St Patty's 2008 WINNERS: Richard III, Nosovs
St Patty's 2007 WINNER: Brf!

Tournament: These are a few of my favorite games. ;) (Backgammon)

Your tournament is finished.
Winner of the tournament: Pedro Martínez

Open Invite: Top 10% Faster Backgammoners for 2009-03

Hi, to 'The Best and The Fast Backgammon Players',

This is an opportunity, check your weight against to other best players if you inside the top 10% any of Backgammon Games.

Don't be afraid of endless games and tournaments! If you don't like to join to the Gammon Tournaments without end (related with the move time of the opponents), our games finish before the next month tournament generally.

We choosed publicly announce this Traditional but popular Tournaments here, in the tournaments discussion and some fellowship groups to all the best and fast players who are inside the top 10% of any type Backgammon Games.

Inside the top 10% any type Backgammon player (Back, Nack, Crowded, Race, Hyper, Anti, Cloning Backgammon, Grasshopper, Plakoto, Fevga), is eligible to join to all other games in this Tournaments before the begin time. March 20th, 2009).

To check where you are in the ratings click to the related links:

Backgammon, Nackgammon, Anti Backgammon, Backgammon Race, Crowded Backgammon, Hyper Backgammon, Cloning Backgammon, Grasshopper, Plakoto, Fevga

Others, outside of top 10% players, will be deleted before the tournaments begin without excuse...

Match type: 3 points match with doubling cube
Tournament type: one match for each two players
Maximum number of players per section: 20
Final match type for two players section: 5 points match with doubling cube
Time control: Time: 3 days, Bonus: 3 hours, Limit: 9 days, no days off (red signed)

(That means after beginning you have 3 days (72 hours) for your first move. Per your another move, you'll have 3 hours bonus for your other move time. 9 days is limit time for the opponents, after the move of other side.)

Please click to the Tournament addresse and 'feel free to join to any type of Gammon Games'. You are eligible to join, to all Gammon games without restriction, only if you inside of top 10% in any Gammon Games';(for now we have only ten types of Gammon games).

Here are the tournament winners of 'Top 10% Faster Backgammoners' from the beginning of 2006 to March 9th, 2009 - (alphabetical orders)
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aaru: (18), afella: (2), alanback: (1), aledates: (1), AlliumCepa: (4), Anencephal: (1), bazari: (3), chessik: (5), CryingLoser: (1), dresali: (1), ennukene00: (1), FOTBALISTA: (3), gambler104: (7), gfeisty1: (1), Gammonator: (1), grenv: (3), Hannelore: (40), Harassed: (2), Helena: (1), imsoaddicted: (1), jopie2002: (2), Kardinal: (2), Konrad: (1), LADIESMANINNY32: (1), ljubisa popovic: (2), Marfitalu: (1), Mary Jo: (2), Mirda: (1), masino: (2), MsDelete: (1), mukali: (1), nobody25: (1), Pason69: (2), pedrored: (5), qusar: (6), Resher: (5), Rex Nihilo: (2), rod03801: (1), skipnnz: (2), Snoopy: (1), Somelaughs2: (1), swelle: (2), TC: (44), Tutagil: (12), UzzyLady: (1), vic: (3), Vikings: (12), WakeUpPeople: (2), Zach: (1),
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Here are the tournament winners of 'Top 10% Faster Backgammoners' from the beginning of 2006 to March 9th, 2009 - (counts of tournaments winner)
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44 times TC,
40 times Hannelore,
18 times aaru,
12 times Tutagil, Vikings,
9 times gambler104,
6 times qusar,
5 times chessik, pedrored, Resher,
4 times AlliumCepa,
3 times bazari, FOTBALISTA, grenv, vic,
2 times afella, Harassed, jopie2002, Kardinal, ljubisa popovic, Mary Jo, masino, Pason69, Rex Nihilo, skipinnz, swelle, WakeUpPeople,
1 time alanback, aledates, Anencephal, CryingLoser, dresali, ennukene00: (1), gfeisty1, Gammonator, Helena, imsoaddicted, Konrad, LADIESMANINNY32, Marfitalu, Mirda, MsDelete, mukali: (1), nobody25, rod03801, Snoopy, Somelaughs2, UzzyLady, Zach,

2009 March : Top 10% - Faster Backgammoners 2009-03

With your join to this Tournament, hope to play good matches and enjoy!

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If you interested who were the best and fast in the previous Gammon Tournaments, please click to following addresse:

2009-01, 2009-02,

2008-12, 2008-11, 2008-10, 2008-09, 2008-08, 2008-07, 2008-06, 2008-05, 2008-04, 2008-03, 2008-02,

2007-12, 2007-11, 2007-10, 2007-09, 2007-08, 2007-07, 2007-06, 2007-05, 2007-04, 2007-03, 2007-02, 2007-01,

2006-12, 2006-11, 2006-10, 2006-09, 2006-07, 2006-06, 2006-05, 2006-04, 2006-03, 2006-02, (Invited)

Thank you!

P/S: Don't forget to click to: 2009 March : Top 10% - Faster Backgammoners 2009-03
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HELP OLD RED MAKE HISTORY IN THIS ONE

OLD RED'S 100 BRAIN"S PRIZE TOURNAMENT

No invite's required

No Fellowship's to join

No vacation day's to worry about

Enter as many games as you what to

Open to anybody that want's to

No rules of any kind except those of BK it's self

JUST HAVE FUN & ENJOY IT

Start's in 77 day's

AS OLD RED ALWAY"S SAID God Bless

JUSTED POSTED


Old Red's 10 BRAINS PRIZE Hyper Backgammon


ALSO OTHERS WITH NO PRIZE


ENJOY ANY OF THEM & HAVE FUN


As Old Red alway's GOD BLESS

FrancescoLR: I no the time you have to spend because i had to do the same & that is just on smaller tournament's..lol I have heard of a black book before,,,,,but black list is a new one on me,,,,so i am going to add that in my book GOOD Luck my friend because you well desire it for running tournament that size.


As old RED alway's said GOD BLESS

MadMonkey: True, you would be a worthy recipient my friend.

Dolittle: I know you are most sociable , you are already a black Rook anyway. Still u could always win it for me lol

MadMonkey: I understand that completely monkeyman and I have left those inactive fellowships. I see no point in joining if you are not going to participate. Another thing I don't care for on those is that they are random games. I only join ones that I know the game I will be playing as I don't know how to play a lot of the games, i,e, chess for one and there are many versions of that. Sorry if I seem antisocial or something....I am not!!

Can be started at anytime now. or it could go until starting time

that bring's ?'s now :))


Who is gong to win it


And when is going to start


But what ever happen's


ENJOY IT & HAVE FUN PLAYING IN IT


As old RED alway's said GOD BLESS

I´ve been looking into the fellowships, but they were not for me. One like line games, which I don't. The 2:nd one got globe images spinning around (disturbs my eyes) and the third one is a bit scary
;-) so I'll have to find some other tournament to join instead

"GERRY": lol, does not bother me at all, i only joined to answer your question

MadMonkey: Would you feel better if i un blocked you lol :))) so you care lol:))

MadMonkey: Thanks for jioining & have fun:)))

Snoopy: Thank's snoopy. The one by one is working very well for me now.And i am enjoying all my tournament's with my play fare rules Enjoy your day & have fun:)))

"GERRY": Well i have just joined one of your Tournaments and you have me blocked (who knows why ? and who cares anyway ? lol) so i guess Snoopy is correct

"GERRY": unfortunately

MadMonkey: I agree with you there..I have a ? for you if you have a player on block can they enter in your tournaments:))

Dolittle: True littleone, but then as lots of people join Fellowships and never take an active role in them i would say it was worth the joining

"GERRY": Of course he has a choice. As it is by invite only it does not have to be in a Fellowship. He invites who ever he wishes to play

Dolittle: I don't think he has any other choice other than do it that way because of all the unwanted players.They can flood your tournament & other way's.It is alot of work removing player's from a tournament's one by one.:))

FrancescoLR: What a shame that such a nice prize tournament has the restriction that you have to join a fellowship in order to play. Sorry but I guess I will miss out on it.

Dice Chess 10x10 (part 2)

First 5 play :)

JOIN ANY OF THESE FELLOWSHIPS AND YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INVITATION TO PLAY IN MEGA TOURNEY WITH PRIZES UP TO THE 10TH PLACE (only if you join one of the 3 fellowships you will be invite )

☼ ¥εstεrday's Wørld ☼

Charity's place

THE IMMORTALS

FIRST TOURNEY (BY INVITATION ONLY ) :
WIN A BLACK ROOK AND BECOME ONE OF THE ETERNALS !!


SECOND TOURNEY (BY INVITATION ONLY )
VINCI LA TORRE NERA E DIVENTA UN ETERNO!!

Third tourney (invite only )
GANHA UMA "TORRE NEGRA" E TORNA-TE UM DOS ETERNOS

fourth tourney (only invitation)
Gane una Torre Negra y sea uno de los eternos!!

fifth tourney (only invite)
VYHRAJ ČERNOU VĚŽ A STAŇ SE DOŽIVOTNÍM ČLENEM

8th tourney open (panws only !! ) (need 1 slot only)
WIN A BLACK ROOK AND BECOME ONE OF THE ETERNALS !!

x 6 x 8 x9 x 10 x 13




Single elimination
4 days time out.