What difference does it make if someone has played the game before to how long they should have for each move? Members of customer service follow the same time limits as everyone else, and why should it be otherwise?

Competition is not the opposite of fun.

Some people cannot access the internet on weekends, very true.

But neither will they time out on a weekend as long as it is a 3 day or more limit. From my experience the people who access the internet from work are the ones who play the most, and generally dont ever hold things up.


I agree with Stevie again.... A tournament is for competition, and fun too, but mostly for competition, to find out the best of the best. Someone playing in a tournament, when they have never even played the game before, and then hold up that tournament because the rules allow them to move at the last minute every time, is simply not right, and especially so when they are a member of customer service. They should first and foremost be concerned with the paying customers whom they supposedly serve, and for their enjoyment over their own.

Why not start a tournament that is just for fun, and not for competition, if thats what they want???

tournaments are tournaments, if they want to play fun games, play normal ones :o)

I disagree. Lots of people cannot access internet during weekends.

I think all tournaments should forget about weekends etc

IMupChucKing: There was no conspiracy, secret plans or whatsoever. The tournament (with all its parameters) was created by Linda, I've just added a payment form to the tournament page top. Everybody who signed up for the tournament knew exactly how the tournaments work, there was no hidden information.
I agree that 30 day tournaments are a problem for some users (I don't say "all users" because I know many people who don't care about days per move and play just for fun, even tournament games). I plan to add a support for fast tournaments where no weekend or vacation days can be used.

Wouldn't you be allowed to finish those tournaments as a pawn?

The tournaments.
There are two tournaments listed, both by a member of customer service, which are for 30 days each move. For Backgammon. at 30 moves per game, that is 4.93 years just to complete one game, and that doesnt include weekends and suspended game times. I know it is every individuals choice to play or not to play, but I think some people simply dont realize what they may be getting into. You will have to renew your membership 4 times just to get through the first round. Maybe there is a conspiracy by cusomer service to keep memberships up?

Just be forewarned that even a 3 day tournament with 30 moves for a game is going to last a half year, not including weekends and suspended times, just for the first round!
Even a 1 day tournament will take 8 weeks with weekends to finish one round....


IMO...There really needs to be a way to have a tournament setting for total time per round, or something.

Linda's donation for a server tournament will still be going long after all the money has been spent on 'miscellanious repairs' and most peoples membership has expired!

Time to start signing for the next 'Boat Battle'. A fast 2 day per move tourny with 5 players per section :o)
Now with all 3 boats games.

Madmonkeys 'Boat Battle' (4)

LOL - even i signed up bumble :o)
Always willing to help (well most times lol)

You've got to do as MM says as he's now my co-moderator here!
Welcome, MM and thanks!

Come on all gammon players, just 8 hours to sign up :o)

All 5 gammon variations in one tournament

Madmonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (4)

Thanks LongJohn! I'm much obliged! :o)

http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=4582&trnst=0

*edit: oh crap i don't know how to do the link right, LOL! Any way it's on the tournament page! :o)

ahhh ok :) I wasn't real sure

our on power house

well who's team am I on lol

that makes cents....or is it since....hmmm maybe its sense? LMAO:)

Ahhh.... OK, that is good. So right now, it would be 5/6 games per person (2 sections total)

OK, now I just got to hurry and wait until july 15th!

With 11 teams, two sections would be created - 6 and 5 teams. It means 5 or 4 games per player [10 or 8 if it's two-game type].

Stevie is right.

nope, it says max 8 teams per section doesnt it?

OK, that makes some since.

So as of right now with 11 teams, each person will have 11 games. (1 game with 1 person from each team)

BBW: The first player of each signed team will play with all other first players, the second one with all other second ones etc. And win/draw points will be summarized as the final score of the team in each particular match.
Let me finish the "table view", it will be more understandable then :-)

I left it yesterday

Last call for the friendly fellowship for a rook tournament,you have until later this evening,any pawns needing assitance on how to sign up feel free to write me for directions,the lights are red lighting,hurry up people.106 members so far should be a good one,good luck too all.

OK, how will the site Team tournaments actually work?

So far there are 11 teams (55 players), and I was wondering how things would work.

Does each player play everyone from 1 other team? Play everyone from all the other teams? Or possible just 1 player from another team?

I guess I'm just wondering how it is going to work. (And how many games we should expect)

i see you added already , 50 pawns if it makes it to 50 pawns i wonder what other restriction there will be .edit (i see you lowered it to 20 pawns, should think about things more before playing with your keyboard )

SIGN UP HERE

Only about 24 hours to sign up - This is the FIRST BrainKing tournament for:

Battleboats Plus
Dark Battleboats
Amazons

- the 3 new games. (Well first tournament other then my fast start tournaments.)

So only 24 hours to join. You can play in 1, 2, or all 3 games as long as you have room for them!

SIGN UP HERE

lol thank you Mrloupcity i also love to fish and think may and june are some of the best months to fish glad you liked it haha!

Amazons tourny Stevies Amazon beauties

nice name as to I went fishing last night we (as in 3 ppl) cought 28 white bass and 1 walleye in 3 hours, lol was a fun night.
:o{P

Hi people there is a tournament for a rook membership,open to all pawns as well,it starts tommorow night,99 have joined already looking for the triple digits to have a great Backgammon tourny.you only need 4 game slots to join.It will be very interesting seeing who comes out of 20 brackets.:o)to all that i have helped join good luck pawns, but the competion is tough the best of the best are there.thanks Mike

Hi. I'd like to be a part of a team. How to do it in Brain? waiting for any advice. jasniepanicz

Great implement Fencer on the tournament start times. :o)

It appears that the tournaments started correctly and there's no problem with the new format.
New format looks like an improvement over the older one too! Cool. I'll see you at the games.

Hey - I have started some "First 5 to sign up" for the 3 new games, take a look at the tournament page to sign up. (Once filled, I will be creating more - so keep checking back)

I have also created a BIG tournament (no limit) for all 3 games that will start in about 3 days. You can sign up for 1, 2, or all 3 new games.

Sign up HERE!

Have Fun!

Ah-ha. Yes, when I implement it :-)

I mean inter fellowship ones, Can WE as big bosses set them up in the future?

Once an hour.

Stevie: All tournaments are handled automatically when a deadline is crossed.

Is it just Fencer who can initiate these?
Cos I cant find link, or is it a "soon to come addition"?

If you are worried, then I personally suggest just changing the start date to about Wednesday or something like that, and then start it then - since a few extra days will not be too big of a deal.

NOTE TO ALL TOURNAMENT CREATORS: With BK2.0, tournaments will automaticly start according to the start time. (Tournament creator does not have to manually start it.) So just a warning! :-)

Hmmm, it copied it nine times! Perhaps my reticence in starting the tournaments is justified? I'll delete the eight extras in a bit.