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4. January 2013, 08:52:13 Subject: Re: Question as a pawn pedestrian: Or not - it seems the tournament has started, and that you're in it. 4. January 2013, 08:51:07 Subject: Re: Question as a pawn JerNYC: Yes 19. September 2012, 12:37:43 Subject: Please join: Modified by pedestrian (19. September 2012, 12:37:58) 3. May 2012, 20:09:34 Subject: ALL20 Nobody has dared to enter this tournament yet ;-) The good news is that you can still join. It’s a multi game tournament: ALL20 The rules are simple: You must sign up for all 20 games. The player with most points combined in all 20 games is the winner and will receive a symbolic prize of 10 brains. Message me if you want to play and I will invite you. Remember that you must sign up for all 20 games. For technical reasons, I had to divide the tournament into two sub-tournaments because some of the games are 5-point-matches. You will have to sign up for 17 games in one sub-tournament and 3 games in the other. The number of players will be between 4 and 11. If we get 11 players, that means 200 games for each. Links to the sub-tournaments: 21. April 2012, 16:07:10 Subject: ALL20 Here’s another multi game tournament: ALL20 The rules are simple: You must sign up for all 20 games. The player with most points combined in all 20 games is the winner and will receive a symbolic prize of 10 brains. Message me if you want to play and I will invite you. Remember that you must sign up for all 20 games. For technical reasons, I had to divide the tournament into two sub-tournaments because some of the games are 5-point-matches. You will have to sign up for 17 games in one sub-tournament and 3 games in the other. The maximum number of players is set to 11. If we get 11 players, that means 200 games for each. Links to the sub-tournaments: (#2 is set up to use doubling cube. This will only affect Backgammon; the other two games can’t be played with doubling cube and will be played as regular 5-point matches instead.) /pedestrian 10. March 2012, 09:01:32 Subject: And the winner of the 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational is... ...tenuki! With 74 of 450 games still going, nobody can catch up with tenuki's impressive score: 75 points in 81 games. Congrats! Full details here. Thanks to all who played, and enjoy your remaining games! /pedestrian 28. February 2012, 16:13:57 Subject: Re: Never-ending tournament Thom27: That's an interesting idea, but I'm still not convinced that Go can compete with Anti Backgammon in this respect. How many moves would a game of Go take when played this way? Forming the 'perfect grid' you speak of should take 180 or 181 moves, but you will most likely have placed some extra stones early in the game that don't fit into the grid. I'm guessing slightly more than 200 moves would be realistic? 28. February 2012, 09:15:59 Subject: Never-ending tournament A word of warning: The never-ending tournament begins tomorrow. If you signed up and you don't really want to play forever, now is the time to leave  23. January 2012, 23:26:39 Subject: Re: Members neded. crosseyed:  3. January 2012, 20:02:37 Subject: 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational, halfway standings Half of the games in the 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational are now completed. It looks like it will be a close race between Pedro Martínez and tenuki. Here are the standings: Pedro Martínez... 37 points in 42 games, 48 games remaining tenuki.............. 36 points in 42 games, 48 games remaining pedestrian......... 36 points in 66 games, 24 games remaining mangue............. 29.5 points in 66 games, 24 games remaining AlterMann.......... 24.5 points in 61 games, 29 games remaining SentineL............ 23 points in 59 games, 31 games remaining varkala.............. 12.5 points in 33 games, 57 games remaining milionovej kluk.... 11 points in 54 games, 36 games remaining Hrqls.................. 8 points in 12 games, 78 games remaining lukulus............... 7.5 points in 15 games, 75 games remaining 25. November 2011, 00:16:46 Subject: Re: Tournaments in rating groups These start Saturday, a lot of sections just need one or two more players: 13. November 2011, 18:11:38 Subject: Tournaments in rating groups A few new tournaments to sign up for, based on BKR: And some backgammon variations, 7 points matches with doubling cube: 26. October 2011, 20:29:02 Subject: 1st BrainKing Decathlon Invitational This is to announce the start of The winner is the player who scores most points in all 10 games combined. I'm eager to see how this concept works out. You can't sign up for this (it's an invitational!) but you can follow some strong players face each other in some of the toughest games on BrainKing. I'm still thinking about creating an open section featuring the same 10 games, but I'm not sure if there's sufficient interest. Message me if you're interested but remember that it will add a lot of games to your games list. 25. August 2011, 08:55:47 Just to remind you that these start tomorrow. Lots of sections only need 1 or 2 more players: Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section. 14. August 2011, 15:24:28 Subject: Tournaments in rating groups Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section: Please sign up - games start August 26th. 26. March 2011, 17:01:58 Subject: Re: Groeneveld: Are you aware that your tournament is set to start on April 30? No need to hurry yet  19. February 2011, 10:00:38 12. February 2011, 00:35:29 25. January 2011, 08:33:18 Starting tomorrow - some tournaments just need one more player! Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section: January Backgammon and Hyper over 2100 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube) Please sign up - games start January 26th. 19. January 2011, 09:13:08 Subject: Tournaments in rating groups Starting a week from now! Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section: January Backgammon and Hyper over 2100 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube) Please sign up - games start January 26th. 5. January 2011, 10:35:33 Subject: Tournaments in rating groups Rating based tournaments designed to give you opponents of roughly the same playing strenght. All-play-all, max 5 players per section: January Backgammon and Hyper over 2100 (these are 5 pt. matches with doubling cube) Please sign up - games start January 26th. 22. November 2010, 22:16:42 Subject: 16-player random tournaments Please sign up for these tournaments: 16-player random chess - needs 2 more players 16-player random checkers - needs 10 more players (are there no checkers fans here?) 16-player random lines - needs 4 more players 16-player random miscellaneous games - needs 5 more players To get the achievement “Random tournament winner”, you must win a random tournament with at least 16 players. These tournaments are designed to meet this criterion. 15. November 2010, 19:09:23 Subject: 16-player random tournaments Still a few slots open for these five tournaments. Each tournament starts when 16 people have signed up. A series of elimination tournaments designed to help people get the achievement “Random 16-player random chess, featuring all chess variations except dice and behemoth chess 16-player random checkers, with a mix of all checkers variations 16-player random lines, with a mix of all line games 16-player random random games, with a mix of games that contain a prominent element of 16-player random miscellaneous games, with all the games that don’t fit into the other categories: Pick the one(s) that suits you best! 5. November 2010, 17:21:54 Subject: Re: 16-player random tournaments rod03801: Thanks a lot! Should be corrected now. 5. November 2010, 14:58:15 Subject: 16-player random tournaments Modified by pedestrian (5. November 2010, 17:21:30) A series of elimination tournaments designed to help people get the achievement “Random 16-player random chess, featuring all chess variations except dice and behemoth chess 16-player random checkers, with a mix of all checkers variations 16-player random lines, with a mix of all line games 16-player random random games, with a mix of games that contain a prominent element of 16-player random miscellaneous games, with all the games that don’t fit into the other categories: Pick the one(s) that suits you best! 1. November 2010, 01:15:20 Subject: Fast random games 29. June 2010, 16:58:50 Subject: Re: How do you sign up for tournaments ? "GERRY": I hope that is obvious from the first line of my post dated 29. June 2010, 13:58:39. In this case, they prevented a new member from finding those tournaments he could actually enter. It's just an opinion, of course. 29. June 2010, 13:58:39 Subject: Re: How do you sign up for tournaments ? Modified by pedestrian (29. June 2010, 13:59:28) Jump This: What you're talking about is the prize tournament that are, annoyingly, placed on top of the tournament page. Scroll down, and you'll find the regular tournaments. Those are for people like you and me who have no 'brains' (No, you can't buy 'brains' anymore, which make those prize tournaments a bit pointless IMO).As I said, you have to click each tournament (after you scrolled down) to see which games it contains. But in your case, since you know what you're looking for, you should do a search for Spider Line4. You'll find the search options right under the prize tournaments. Use the drop down that says 'all games' and change that to 'Spider Line4' and click 'show'. Now all the tournaments listed (except, still, those annoying prize tournaments) will contain a section called Spider Line4. Note that you still have to click each tournament to get to its sections, and also note that the Spider Line4 section may be closed. Unfortanately, you can't narrow your search to show open sections only. I warned you it was complicated - but only until you get the hang of it. 29. June 2010, 13:30:36 Subject: Re: How do you sign up for tournaments ? Modified by pedestrian (29. June 2010, 13:31:21) Jump This: Hard to tell what you're missing, but the tournaments here are a lot different from IYT. First of all, most tounaments contain several game types. Every tournament is divided into sections, each containing one game type, but you'll have to click each tournament to see which sections it has. Or, if you're looking for a specific game type, you can narrow it down a bit by searching for tournaments which contain that game. But you still get the full list of sections, and you may find that you can't join the game you searched for, because that section already started. All very confusing, I know, but give it a try. 25. May 2010, 00:06:40 18. May 2010, 23:58:27 11. May 2010, 23:53:14 Subject: Chess Lottery Still two weeks left to sign up for: Chess Lottery Random tournament involving all chess variants, all-play-all. It'll be fun!  6. May 2010, 09:48:17 Subject: Chess Lottery 24. April 2010, 00:19:31 Subject: Pedestrian's 38½ Birthday 19. April 2010, 17:08:54 Subject: My first tournament A few selected classics, new and old: Pedestrian's 38½ Birthday (I just wanted to test how tournament creation works. Incidentally, this coincides with my half-birthday.) 14. January 2010, 06:30:39 Subject: Re: Tournaments with multiple game types - is it possible? Nothingness: That is interesting. I'd be very interested in seeing how you set it up. Do you have a link to the tournament? 9. January 2010, 11:37:05 Subject: Re: Tournaments with multiple game types - is it possible? Thanks for the inputs so far! talen314: Yes, I had something like that in mind when I talked about a way to ‘work around’ the current system. But I’d still prefer a tournament when you played all the selected game types against the same opponents. From a sporting point of view, that would be the fairest way to find the tournament winner. MadMonkey: Thanks for putting the suggestion on your list! I get the impression that Fencer has plenty to do with the upgrade he’s working on, but maybe a different system for tournament creation is part of that too – who knows? An additional problem is the ‘match type’ used for the different games. It would be nice if that could be set separately for each game type. One of the game types in a brainking decathlon could be a backgammon match using the cube, but I think you’d have to set that up as a separate tournament in the current system. I suppose an invitational tournament would make most sense, to make sure that everyone is playing all the games. But I’ll probably wait and see how tournaments work in the new Brainking 3.0 before I decide what to do. 8. January 2010, 14:45:35 Subject: Tournaments with multiple game types - is it possible? Not sure if this belongs here or in the ‘feature requests’ forum, but here goes: I think it would be interesting to organize a tournament similar to decathlon in athletics. Each two opponents would have to play ten (or a different number) of pre-defined game types against each other, and the accumulated score in all game types would decide who qualifies for the next round. Apparently, this can’t be done in the current tournament structure (correct me if I’m wrong). So, I wonder if there is a practical way to work around it, for instance by starting tournaments in each game type and then calculate the overall winner manually; or (preferably), if an option could be implemented in Brainking 3.0 to create tournaments with multiple game types. I’m considering buying a brain rook membership to set up a tournament like this, but I’d appreciate any input from more experienced tournament creators before I start. |
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