When team matches between fellowships is released, I would like to see a page listing all the teams, and players on the teams, of a selected game type. From that page challenges could be issued by either the team captains and/or big bosses. Maybe the number of players could be selected and players with the closest BKR automatically paired.

One can presently search a player's archived games just for games with oneself, it would be nice to be able to select just the games with any specified user.

LOL, background music to play by. It would make it interesting to be able to hear music from other countries that way. Liquid would really be having to sit on the servers!!!

How about if BrainKing had a jukebox? The winner of a game gets a token to stick on a disc of their choice.

Yes, that's a good idea.

When a player is removed from a tournament that you create, you get a message telling you which people were removed. Would it be easy to make that list of people linkable to their profile?

I sometimes like to take a look at the persons profile, and would be easier to just click on thier name then to have to go the the players list and search on the names.

Hey thats better than next year! :D

Weeks. Always weeks.

Instead of a 3-wins match, how about a "best of" match arrangement?

You can have varying lengths according to the type of game. For example, in checkers, a longer match is usually required to determine a victor. 24 to 40 game matches are typical at the World Championship level, but this is a bit much for online play. Perhaps 13 games would suffice. Whoever has the most points wins the match.

If it ever reaches a point where it is mathematically impossible for the other side to win, then it can be stopped.

For exmaple, if there are 4 wins and 6 draws in a 13 game match, the last 3 games need not be played since if the winner lost all 3 then he would still win.

This is actually what they do in checkers. Since Alex Moiseyev was up 8-2 over Ron King in the last World Checkers Championship, that match was called off early.

Chess would need fewer games, maybe 7.

Gothic Chess would probably only need 5.

Again, the same rules apply. If a mathematical certainty has been reached, like 3-0 in Gothic or 4-0 in chess, the match can be stopped.

I think in drawish games, you should rate the result 1-0 (like checkers). In other games, you should rate each game as they complete.

Just an opinion, but I think the reasoning makes sense.

Fencer - I know you are still working on it, and I'm not complaining or anything - just curious. How close is BK2.0 to being ready to test/use? Days, weeks, or still months?

hmmmm?

Definitely not.

depends who asks? :)

Ehm ... everything what I want to do can be done :-)

Sure?..how about auto-pass in backgammon? :)