Here is the result of the BrainKing Scrabble Tournament on BugCafe
I will be setting another up this week and also a Canasta one for those interested
To join you will have to be a player at BugCafe, but it is free to sign up

SCRABBLE

BrainKing Open 1

Round 1

Mal4Inara / Chimpanzee	228 - 406
ruby2 / tippyc		294 - 370
MadMonkey / Hannelore	313 - 315 
txaggie / kmslape	352 - 301 
ajtgirl / sarok		328 - 149 
nstre / ScarletRose	384 - 275 
purplekat / kiwiyeti	141 - 383 
UzzyLady / pgt		227 - 404 

Round 2

nstre / pgt		309 - 534 
txaggie / Chimpanzee	215 - 364 
ajtgirl / kiwiyeti	239 - 375 
Hannelore / tippyc	256 - 120 

Round 3

pgt / kiwiyeti		373 - 431 	
Hannelore / Chimpanzee	330 - 424 

FINAL

kiwiyeti / Chimpanzee	520 - 362 


Tournament winner is: kiwiyeti

MadMonkey: It seems to me this isn't the first time this sort of problem has arisen after the annual archiving. I think last year or the year before there were problems, too. Maybe not specifically the same exact problem, but pretty similar, I think. I don't remember it clearly now, though.

Pioneer54: You mean the results grids for Tournaments ? If so i posted about it on the brainking board

Ever since the "update", they've been all sorts of messed up! Just wondering why no one has posted on this.

World championship BRK 08 in Random Games

All players regardless their membership can enter this tournament

Starting in a few days:

ALL games for dummies(under 1500&unrated) #20

This tournament is for players rated 1500 or under --AND-- unrated players.

This is a GREAT way to learn new games - or play games without being killed by the expert players.

In the next couple of days, I will go through and remove players who are WAY over 1500 to keep it fair for everyone... so don't worry if you see someone rated 2000+, they should be removed here soon.

Good luck to all:

ALL games for dummies(under 1500&unrated) #20

Right, lets get the New Year off to a great start
Come and join in the next lot of MadMonkey Tournaments
Have Fun everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all

MadMonkeys 'Boat Battle' (10)

MadMonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (9)

MadMonkeys 'Go, Espionage & Reversi' Muddle (2)

MadMonkeys 'Checkers & Chess' Choice (2)

MadMonkeys 'Scrambled' Lines (4)

MadMonkeys 'All Other Games' Mess (4)

 Summer Flames PahTum Tourney

Gammon Elimination w/ cube

Mega tournament of S*I*L*V*E*S*T*R, please, enter: S*I*L*V*E*S*T*R

Single Elimination Pente - 2 wins match

11 players needed per variant - sign up quick!!

Right, lets get the New Year off to a great start
Come and join in the next lot of MadMonkey Tournaments
Have Fun everyone and HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all

MadMonkeys 'Boat Battle' (10)

MadMonkeys 'Gammon' Stakes (9)

MadMonkeys 'Go, Espionage & Reversi' Muddle (2)

MadMonkeys 'Checkers & Chess' Choice (2)

MadMonkeys 'Scrambled' Lines (4)

MadMonkeys 'All Other Games' Mess (4)

Chess festival - remember Paul Keres - chess BKR>1600
Nõmme Chess - public tournament - Chess variants & Jungle

Single Elimination Pente - 2 wins match

16 players needed - sign up quick!!

srnity: Not to worry, seems ok now, maybe just had the Xmas blues

i normally goto the Tournaments itself and just copy link from the addy bar

A nice quite Boxing Day (still no drink lol), and work tonight............oh hum

MadMonkey: Thank You for fixing the link That was/is odd, I CCP'd it as usual from the Tourneys List Board - got me And "Happy Boxing Day" btw

srnity: hmmmm whats going on here, i click on it, it logs me out, changes my setup to castle style & and i can not sign up

My Top-Ten Favorite BrainKing Games for 2007 :)

EDIT: Link sorted

Enter, please: Ježíšek vám naježí

To celebrate my 5 years on BrainKing (in a couple of months), I have created a Frog Finder tournament with a prize!

coan.net 5 YEARS on BK Frog Finder

Good luck to all!

Oddworld: 1 hour???

Enter, please: Zabité mrtvoly 2

Please, enter: Zabité mrtvoly (1.kolo)

Come on: Winter chess of Oddworld

A WHAM BAMS A Pondside of Points!!! #94

coan.net: Yup, that's right. I abandonned my Anti-Backgammon team for a while because of the big amount of members until the team tournament starts, then I return.

TarantinoFan: Yes, once a team tournament starts - all games will continue until the end (all next rounds will start also) - even if the person leave the fellowship team.

I believe they have to stay on the team until it starts - but once it starts, it will let them leave to join any other fellowship team they want.

So they can leave your team as soon as the tourney starts and go back to their old team to be able to paricipate in f/s challenge matches but their games for your team still continue? I thought that once you were in a game for a f/s you had to stay until the tournament/challenge ended?

If that is the case I will let my team know about it so that any that miss out can participate with another team in the team tourney but still come back to us if they wish to play with us in our f/s challenges.

I do understand your point about multiple teams though. When you think about it it might mean your own f/s playing your own f/s in the last section. And keeping it to one team allows more f/s a chance to participate.

TarantinoFan: There is no guarantee, but it is a pretty safe bet that many of the "unpopular" games will have between 4-6 players, while the more popular games will most likely have between 7-10 players.

So Backgammon, Ludo, Frog Finger, Triple Dice Poker - mostly likely will always be around 8 (give or take a few)

Plus members can always leave and go back to a team after a tournament starts - for example, for Ludo my Private Den fellowship snatched 3 players from another fellowships team to enter the tournament... but I would guess (and welcome) then going back to their original team if they wanted.

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It had been talked about before - possible letting fellowships enter multiple teams, but that might hurt some of the smaller fellowships - that is for example, my Gammon Cube fellowship easily had 25 players on the Backgammon team before the team tournaments started - if I would have been able to enter all of them in multiple teams, a few others fellowships may not have been able to gather teams.

joshi tm: Well that's not fun! Would be great to be able to run 2 teams at a time! And what happens next time there is a team tourney. If you have had to leave players out this time and they go somewhere else just so they can get a game but the next tourney offers more places do you beg them to come back to you?? Is there some guarantee that these team tourneys will always have the same number of team players?

TarantinoFan: Enter the second team, like in football. At this moment you can't but that would be great.