It would certainly solve some problems..
Just make shorter rook memberships for those who do not want to spend as much money..

i know, i was just being all inclusive in the description. Just one level of membership (equal to rooks) is really needed, and lift all the restrictions. In fact I can't really understand why people choose knights when they can be rooks for an additional 83c per month.

You already are able to donate as much as you wish to.

Personally I think there should be memebers and non-members, along with an option to donate more for those that wish to. I'm not sure why we need all these levels of membership.

Agreed BBW, as at first Knights were not going to be allowed to play in any team tournaments. Then Fencer decided to let them play in just the one.

I think the main problem is now the Knights can only play one team tournament, that Rook members are joining ones they would not normaly play.
This is giving alot of them alot more games than they would normaly play. After playing in quite a few team tournaments you seem to notice you come across alot of the same players again & again as it is often the same Rooks playing in them.
I know that the idea is to try to get members to upgrade to Rooks.

Is this reason really working do we know ?

We would certainly get alot more teams entering tournaments if Knights were allowed to enter more than one, but of course there is that magic 50 game limit to be kept to.

promise?

I would like to see the rule of having to have a higher then a knight membership to join team tournaments and also have the ability to let my tournaments run out of time, when they get deleted for not enough players, i find that as a double jepardy effect,what goes for one goes for all.DONE!!!

You know I liked the idea at first of having a limit of 1 team tournament for knights, but I would like to see that rules lifted.

The only problem I would see is if a team signed up a knight member, then when the tournament is about to start and that knight is over the 50 game limit, it would cause problems for the whole team.

But again, think it would be a good idea to find a way so knights can enter more team tournaments.

i think fewer people are entering because the team tournaments are taking too long. Especially since Knights can't enter 2.

This seems stupid because at the rate some of them are going you could be stuck in a tournamnent for years.

3 days now some games have extended due to auto vacation. Same games 2 times last time. And its not meant to affect us..what a crock

Ok, I see the Players Result tables now also. I looked at the tournament while it was in the "waiting" stage to start round 3 of the tournament, so I'm guessing that during the hour it was in this "waiting stage", that it must not have had that link.

... yea, just as I suspected... the tournament creator who was on the winning team plus winning all his games also has access to the site code.... Can someone say conspiracy??? LOL

I see the Players Results table - I see the dice roller won all his games. :)

I would agree that backgammon is the one game that can support a bigger team (possible up to 10 players), but on the flip side - it might mean less number of total teams.

2 games per opponent? Why? Backgammon is one of the games that does not really have an advantage for one player over the other, plus currently there are less and less players signing up for team tournaments (and double games may keep them away), plus with only 1 game per opponent - the team tournament might complete sooner.

Other then that, I 2nd the 2nd request for fencer to add the 2nd backgammon team tournament.

2nd request for Fencer - can he set up another one straight away (Backgammon Team Tourney) and make it say 10 players per team? 2 games per opponent.......???

BrainKing's Very First Team Tournament - Backgammon is COMPLETE!

Link to tournament

There is a small bug in the tables (created a new section for the winning team), which I'm sure Fencer will fix as soon as he is on next.

Here are the results:

1st place: · · ® · Cajovna · ® · ·

2nd place: !Bry's Backgammon Fellowship

3rd place: ◙ The Gammon Cube ◙

4th place: HOME

5th place: Neznalkovo spolecenstvo

Congrats to all!

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Request for Fencer:

1) Can we see the Player results table for the completed tournaments like we see for current tournaments.

That's OK, anyway I just upgraded, so it's moot.

LMAO @ Ceridwen ;oÞ

The Old man, you would have to wait for the tourny to be completed first :o(

Only if you're over 85 and bring written permission from both parents.

I have 1 game left in a reversi 8x8 tournament, but my opponent plays once every 7 days. If I resign the game, can I sign up for another reversi 8x8 tournament, even if the tournament hasn't finished ? I am a Brain Knightmember. Thanks.

I don't think you'll see any activity for a while. The problem is that he is rarely playing, yet has 666 unfinished games. To me this is a mind blowing number for someone with a full time job. :)

here is what is added in their profile,
In this time i am playing games only in one or two days for week.

I akcept only game with seven or more days to move because i am very busy or travelling.

I am a 26 years old computer admin.

I like playing games, read books, hike, running and a little aerobic.

My favorite game is Five in line.

It is not important win, it is important play.

Let's go ...

And with the last part that says let's go. When are you going to restart playing ur games? And I know I'm not the only 1 that would like to know...

Backwards into the Future?

or how about.....

Halma 10x10: "The tournament without a name"

Line4 - Line-r-up

Halma 8x8: Halma 8x8=64? Tournament

Halma 10x10: So many spaces, so little pieces

nope not helping BBW, it was you that was asked LMAO

Names.... Hum..... not sure. (looks around for others to throw out some suggestions)

BBW: And what about some proposals of other tournament names? :-)

Line 4 is good, cos it wouldnt normally be stretched out for years :o) And as BBW says its a good game for a wide range of players :o)

For new team tournaments, here are some tournaments I would like to see:

Crowded Backgammon - A popular Gammon game, maybe 5-7 players per team. Need to get this one going since after this starts, we should be ready for out 2nd regular Backgammon team tournament (with 1 game left to complete) [name suggestion: Don't stand so close gammon]

Halma 8x8 - Not to popular, would not make it more then 4-5 players per team.

Anti Froglet - Some-what popular, could probable get enough team even with 5-6 players per team. [name suggestion: The Croaking Frog]

Halma 10x10 - Would stick with 4-5 players per team.

Line4 - It's an easy game which more "non-regular" players may play - probable could handle 5-6 players per team.

Again, just a few of my suggestions! :-)

antidisestablishmentarianism? Perhaps not.

Or "eat me if you can"? :-D

"Take my pieces - i dont want them !!" applies to me in any version of chess anyway ROFL

"deep boredom"

"Anti-Kasparov" ? "No, Anti-mate" ... "Ultimate Antimate" ! :-))

Any good idea for anti chess team tournament name?

No harm done, UE. I was just pulling BBW's leg.
I'm not that strict as not to allow a few posts of good-humoured banter occcassionally - heck, I'm one of the culprits!

parlez en anglais svp

LOL

Steve started,i defend myself sorry my captain of nackgammon tournament,that is not off topic,why did you pick me? What does love in the air have to do with tournaments?

Sorry, BBW, I'm leaving that post by UE, although off-topic. The embarrassment content alone is priceless!

Now enough of the love-in and back to tournaments. :)

Yeah like you need to listen to (Air Supply) LMAO

I can feel the love in the air LMAO

Again BBW you make perfectly good sense to my knowledge,sounds great and perfect as usual,not enough people give you the credit you deserve for your intellegence and wisdom.Your friend Mike.:o)

There is an apparent "studder" in the second section when seeding the players.

Section 1 gets seed #1

Section 2 gets seed #2
Section 2 gets seed #3

Section 1 gets seed #4
Section 1 gets seed #5

then it alternates. It's a good system which promotes competition to the maximum.

It's a way to spread out the highest ranked players. I'll explain it this way which should make a little more since. (Example using 4 sections)

So first put the highest ranked player in section #1,
2nd highest in Section #2,
3rd highest in Section #3
4th highest in Section #4

At this point you start to go backwards.

5th highest in Section #4,
6th highest in Section #3,
7th highest in Section #2,
8th highest in Section #1,

... and again, in the other direction.

9th highest in Section #1
10th highest in Section #2
11th highest in Section #3
12th highest in Section #4
... and so on.

Hopefully that will make more since seeing it when it applies to more section. With only 2 sections, it does look a little strange.

ok, but seems to be a little bit strange to me.

First group:
highest ranked
4th highest
5th higest
8th highest

Second Group:
2nd highest ranked
3rd highest
6th highest
7th highest

Please tell me, how the groups was built in this torunament - following after the strength of the player not only i suppose.
Which rating will be used? Because when I calculate with the actual rating the rank the groups must be built in another way. So what is teh way to build the groups?
(I thought I will be in the group with Ed Trice but was a little bit disappointed when i saw that i am not in his group - but as i told i calculated after rating rank).
So what?

they will wait unstarted until enough teams sign up :o) I asked this one before

Fencer - for the 3 or so Team Tournament which do not have enough teams, what will happen to those?