bumble: *nod* sorry forgot on which board i was :)

Only..... 7 Days to sign up for the 50th Backgammon Championships.

Click the link below to sign up and view winners of past tournaments.

The biggest and best Backgammon Tournament on Brainking.Com.

Backgammon Championships-No.50

Bry: Why 21 days? Way too long!

Czuch Chuckers: All 50 of them have been 21 days - since the changes there are no vacation days allowed either, plus it's my preference.

Bry: Ah, no vacation, that helps some, but its not really a championship without all the best players :) I understand that it doesnt really matter how long it takes, but it is just too frustrating when 1 or 2 people take the full limits to make a move, and its just not worth it.

Czuch Chuckers: I cant satisfy everyone. Other than Pawns, I would expect that the majority of top players have been involved at some point.

SilentBob for winning the Pond Finger Pond.

Bry: Does anyone "really" need 21 days to play amove in backgammon? I mean, really? I think you are only encouraging someone to join just to play head games and see how long they can drag the tournament out.....

Czuch Chuckers: i like the long time on it so i can still join the tournament although i will be on holiday soon

(i didnt join the last though as 21 days is just too little .. with the weekend days added i could barely make it .. but i dont want to be forced right back to the computer when i get back :))

for rooks it shouldnt matter how long the time limit is .. it isnt a minimum time per move .. so most games are rather fast

there are more tournaments with faster times so they can be used as well ... but there might be more people who cant join such a tournament because of the fast timeouts .. a real championship should give everyone the opportunity to join .. thats why i like the long time per move as well :)

Hrqls: I want your life.... taking 2, 21+ day holidays/year! I am lucky to get 5 days together. And rarely am I lucky enough to be somewhere where I cant get internet access to play one move in a backgammon game.

Czuch Chuckers: 2* 21 ? i wish :)

i get 5*5+13 days per year .... 5 weeks holiday, and 13 special days .. most specials days are fixed already .. but some are left for me to spend, the 5 weeks can be taken in parts as well :)

on holiday i wont be on the internet at all .. even when i can i wont .. it wont be a holiday that way :) .. i often track around in holidays in other countries

again .. i thought i was on the chat board .. end of the week .. i see numbers everywhere :)

Czuch : Most people "really" do not need 21 days, and most people move every day.

It's 21 days because that is "my" choice. There's no need to make issue over the length of the time limit.

If you do not want to join, fine. It will not make any difference. It will still be started.

Bry:

I have 5 slots available and would like to know about how many I should have before I run off and take the tournament world by storm. Does it depend on the tourney?

bobwhoosta: On the sign up page [of a tournament] there is a warning containing the information about the required number of slots [5 or 10].

BrainKing.com - Tournaments (Anyone Can Win)
http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trg=10365&u=367&trnst=0

whenever the time runs out it re-sets itself again and my opponent won't play so we can't finish the game! help!!!

your opponent is most likely using auto-vacation

http://brainking.com/en/Help?ht=9

Why is it necessary to create tournaments not set to start until the end of 2006???? 557 tournaments??? The whole page won't even load for me. (And what does load takes quite a while to do so..) Thank goodness only a few people have done this, or we could have thousands of tournaments on that page.

Just curious what the answer is.. My first thought is they just like seeing their tournament featured in the little green box on the main page that advertises tournaments to sign up for.. The more you have, the higher the odds of it being yours listed there..

or is there an actual reasonable reason??

rod03801: yeah. I know there are Tournies there that are not going to start for nearly 2 years. Maybe we sholud ask fencer to put a sensible time limit on it.

How many people may sign up now, and be pawns, or maybe even leave the site by then, that would wreck the tournies too.

rod03801: I agree. I think it would be easier to just show the (let say) 50 tourtnaments/ponds on one page (and still let people see the tournaments/ponds which start later.

rod03801: Or possibly each person can only place a maximum of 5 tournaments in waiting tournaments at the same time.

rod03801: or group them to the person that created them ,like in the waiting games area , you would have to click the link to open all the tournaments a person has created

Jason: better, i think, would it be to group them by game type or time per move

hmm .. i think you already had that in your suggestion as the waiting games are split among the game types as well :)

so you can just ignore this message :)

August Assortment

All welcome to join in.

Can you do something about the 567 tournaments that are showing on the tournament page?

Perhaps similar to the Waiting Games page?

Or maybe a "Hide tournaments created by this player" feature.

Open Pente winner

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=49831

Jo

Halma 10 x 10 winner

http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=49848

Jo

I would like to thank Kata Liana for her great tourneys. What a pity it's possible to create them only till 2006....

Pedro Martínez: I´m sure I will enjoy them, if I´m still alive by the time... As much as scrolling the whole tournaments list...

Pedro Martínez: Yeah, We need more!!!

The problem with these unrestricted creations is that Rook members can set up a tournament on a proposed starting date that far exceeds their membership. Kata, for example, is a member through June 2006, but has set up events that are not scheduled to begin for over 500 days!!? If she does not renew her membership, is there some mechanism to automatically cancel these remaining events? If not, isn't this an abuse of the system? Furthermore, isn't it a bit absurd to arrange tournaments that won't begin for more than 500 days from now? Wouldn't it be more reasonable to have a cutoff, say, 3 months or 6 months?

Also, since gammon tournaments are so popular, perhaps a separate page should be made just for those tournament types. Some of us are not interested in gammon, but we have to wade through the extensive listings to get to those we do want. Selecting a particular game type to display is not really a solution, it is tedious, too.

Also note that those tourneys are only for 8 players. *shakes head*

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bring your own raincoats and umbrellas ....

Pioneer54: you can filter the games types at the top of the page....

redfrog: "Selecting a particular game type to display is not really a solution"

I agree with Pioneer - there are a bunch of different variations on a few main game types here. There should just be 7 new filters, one for each group already defined on the New Game page.

That should be easy, right Fencer? Maybe even an 8th one just for Pente variations???? Just kidding... kinda...

Congrats to me for winning the first quick players club backgammon open!

Time to sign up for #2
http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?trg=10438&tri=52272&trnst=0

Czuch Chuckers: Congrats Czuch!

chess variations

How come nobody admires the solved problem of too long Tournaments page?

Fencer: Good job...*admiring* *admiring* *admiring*
:)

Fencer:

tournies that had aready started now have (no days off). At least to me this is not right. If I wanted to play in tournies that had no days off I would have signed up for them. So now what is going on here changing rule after something has started. I see on the BK board that they say lots of people are leaving this site or just not renewing. This may have something to do with it. It like changing horses in the middle of the stream u can get wet most of the time. So now guess if I don't want to play in tournies that have changed. Guess some people playing me may get lots of win over the rules changing.

:o{P

mrloupcity: Tournament creators have no way to change the type of days off a tournament has - so all tournament should have the same "days off" rules that where there when they started.

If you see something you think has been changed - it may be a bug, but nothing should be changing after it is created.

Thanks, Fencer! That's awesome...
But shouldn't someone only be able to create tournaments only as far ahead as their current membership?

BIG BAD WOLF: I did not join any tournies that I could not take days off. So then I guess it has to be a bug. With the things going here at the house I have to be able to take days off. Well guess when I run out of vac days I'll be SOL and poele will get free wins. BBW thxs for repling.

is the RED DOTS where not there yesterday. But now there are. TYVM for the time to write. Now back off the board. And to my corner. So that way will say out of every1s bis.

mrloupcity: games with no days off have been implemented here some weeks ago, but the red dots only showed in the game invitation and in the tournament list, where you probably overlooked it.

It's new that the red dot is also shown in your game list, to make it easier for you to find these games, but the games themselves were no-days-off games from the start.

mrloupcity: Looking at your games, I'm guessing you are talking about the "1.st Liberals & Talent Tournament - Crowded Backgammon" - http://brainking.com/en/Tournaments?tri=49714#1

If that is the case, then the time is using the new Fischer's clock time control, which in all Fischer clock games - holidays/weekends/vacations are not used. (That has been listed in the Time Help Section since the Fischer's clock was introduced.)

But because all of those games did not have days off, Fencer at first did not have the red dot next to those tournaments - since all would have no time off it did not make a difference. But I believe he added them recently so it would be easier to see by everyone since not everyone will go read the help about the new time control.

So you are right that it probable did not say "no time off" when you signed up - but all games using Fisher's clock has not vacation or weekend days.