Brf's 6th Annual St. Pat's Pente Tourney

Here we are again with another yearly installment of the much anticipated "St Patricks Day Pente Tournament"

After constantly adjusting and tweaking the Tourney Settings every year to try and improve the flow and speed, last years parameter change of "10 wins match" should not have been selected. The 2011 tourney is still ongoing due to this

improper setting for a "final match with two players."

With that key learning identified, I believe we'll use the same settings as last years format but lower the 10 wins match to something more reasonable '5' seems like a decent baseline since 3 is a bit light. With this minor change,

this years St Pat's Tourney should have the best settings yet for speed while maintaining a solid challenge to all players.

This is a prize tournament with 1 year Brain Rook awarded to the winner. The section size has been set at 7 people per section with time limits set at 2 days per move with vacation allowed.....anything more and the tourney

won't finish before the 2012 St Patty's tourney.

Do you feel you have the Pente luck of the Irish? well sign up and see how far you can make it through the Rounds! On St.Patricks Day (March 17, 2012) the tourney begins!

My thanks to all of you who continue to sign up for this tournament every year! Good luck to all of you, I look forward to playing you across the board!


PAST TOURNAMENT RESULTS!
St Patty's 2011 WINNERS: Aleph?, Brf? (In Progress!)
St Patty's 2010 WINNERS: Karlw, Novatis
St Patty's 2009 WINNER: Nosovs
St Patty's 2008 WINNERS: Richard III, Nosovs
St Patty's 2007 WINNER: Brf!

All elimination tourneys first 16 to join!

Back & hyper FULL
Dark battleboats vs Battleboats + FULL
Behemoth v Dice chess FULL
Line 4 vs Five in a line FULL
Knight fight vs Tablut 1 more space

quite a few of the tourneys only need 1 or 2 more to start if anyone is interested!

A selection of hyper, backgammon, ludo, and a couple of chess tournaments are waiting in the tourney section.

Only 5 brains to enter, winners get 25 brains back!

2 days per move and will start immediately after 5 players enter!

Will help you get the achievements for joining brain entry fee tourneys :)

Nakcgammon 15

pedestrian: By the way I like the old boot.

crosseyed: 

Thank you  pedestrian  for joining and signing up for the Dice Poker team challenge game.

Bwild:

crosseyed: Your welcome,hun.

crosseyed: Thank you Bwild for signing up. One more player needed please any takers?

Is there anyone who would like to join The Good, The Bad and The Ugly fellowship and sign up for the team challenge game Dice Poker. We only have 6 players and and need 8. I would love to sign up for the Team tournament.

15 brain BECKGAMMON 23

need a few more players please  Winter Tournament #2

Congratulations to mariq_dt

For winning the Holiday Backgammon

One Month Brain Bishop on its way.

made a tournament if anyone is interested   Winter Tournament

I were browsing tournaments and found one for players who aren't confident in their pente skills:
Friday 4 player elimination #210
Pointless for me to join (1 man needed) so maybe someone else will gladly try playing this game.

Random prize

Just ONE more person needed and the tourney will have a full amount of players!

Battleboats +

only 3 days left to sign up!

Have a Cool Yule

UE's Birthday Tourny (Hyper BG)

BAH HUMBUG!! had several games start already. There a couple that are real close to starting :

BAH HUMBUG!! dice chess 10x10 Needs 1

BAH HUMBUG!! dice poker needs 2

Many others that need more players. The tourney "officially" started tomorrow, but there is an extra week, for the games that don't have many players yet, before it's deleted.

Have a Cool Yule

UE's Birthday Tourny (Hyper BG)

ho ho ho merry christmas to everyone

Merry Christmas

Random prize

Single elimination, first 64 to sign up

6 months to the winner good luck

Battleboats +

6 months rook to the winner

Bwild: must have been

MadMonkey: there is the occasional global drive by!! lol

hmm, so you're saying that my better 'me' stopped me from hitting enter? because i definately what I wrote. sorry then : (

Chaosu: Are you sure you had a post deleted ? I haven't deleted any in months

Theres no mention of it in the event history

Chaosu: When I copy and paste winning tournaments I do it in rich text and then type in the game. So people can click on the link or see which game was won. Fencer has changed things as before the game would show up.

Chaosu: Did you call him names maybe?
Otherwise, I agree. Copying the generated tournament completion mail is useless if the tournament has multiple games.
Actually, the good fix would be to have the message enhanced, but until then, when you copy and post it, you should add the game name.

what i'm trying to say is that NascarFan814 is posting tournament winners without posting a game name which makes it pointless (all we see that same tournament name is posted over and over again with different winners, which is confusing and makes no sence). I'm assuming that NascarFan814 follow netiquette rules and he reads the boards which he posts on so I'm trying to leave him a message. One of them was deleted without any notification, that's what I call silent moderating.