Backgammon Online

09-Oct-2014
11:53 PDT

@All
The standings are in a thread of their own, in these very forums.

@Ahmed,
I did not ask anyone for help; Klimtkiss volunteered to help me on her own and I am grateful for that.

Chwaqasahmed volunteered David Cool to put up a results page. Three times I said that I could not update this page: twice in the results forums (15/9/14 and 16/9/14) and once (17/9/14) in a pm directly to David Cool. I received a very rude reply for all my trouble and David Cool took down his non-working page.
Since then, results and standings are being reported in the forums.

09-Oct-2014
12:21 PDT

The page that I made was working just fine and I was sending you the user name and the password to it, which I was trying before sending it. I do not know which problem you could have had with that. I was also publishing a excel sheet were everyone would have access to, to report all results. I was putting it down after one week as you were not using it. And I am never rude.
after this I will also not offer my help anymore. You were asking me to do these excel sheets in a PM and after making them you were not using them. Until today I do not know why, but when you ask for it and they are Ok you should use them, otherwise do not ask, because it is work and it does cost time

09-Oct-2014
14:44 PDT

Real good statement, Ahmed.

i sign that.

And: i don´t even know wether my team is still in the tournament or is just waiting for a challenge. I might ask here, but i´d prefer a website or exelsheet.

And at least: deadlines are essential for good game experience.

09-Oct-2014
15:07 PDT

It is for FUN
Let's play a GAME.
Oh yeah by the way I defeated.?.... who cares...... it's not going to shock the world either way!😴

09-Oct-2014
15:41 PDT

This post was deleted by catquest on 14-Oct-2014, 01:45 PDT

09-Oct-2014
17:00 PDT

like dadooo said its a game if it takes a while for games to finish so what if you need to play a timed tourney they are on other threads lets just play and try to enjoy them please .

09-Oct-2014
18:52 PDT

ditto to the above.

@David... you have done a fantastic job with the Unofficial Tournament Site! That takes a lot of extra effort, skill and love of the game. Thank you  

@Yiannakos... you have spent a lot of time and effort organizing and tracking the Nations tournaments. Thank you  

@ChWaqasAhmed...Your efforts in organizing and searching out new play ideas has definitely helped kept interest in this site. Thank you  

@ZE... your slow tournaments are frustrating and could benefit from many of the quicker play ideas which came out of the above unofficial tournaments.... but you're not listening.  

Now, each month, every type player has a lot more selections for competition than they had just last year. That's COOL  

09-Oct-2014
20:52 PDT

These unofficial tournaments are done by ChWaqasAhmed and I do give him just a hand. all rules dates, formats and whatever is done by Ahmed, who is doing a great job for a very long time. He does make it possible to play quick tournaments that are at least in my opinion are very nicely organized. The deadlines are also almost never a problem. In a tournament with around 60 matches that does just happens sometimes to 1 or maximum 2 games. So the thanks should go mainly to Ahmed. I am always happy to help anybody here, as I was also trying with this tournament.

I made for this tournament a excel sheet with the individual games and I was setting up also a page on Bianrybeast, where anyone can setup any kind of tournament without any cost. I was sending yiannakos both links, as this is his tournament, so he could publish them, but that never happened. Maybe they were not good enough, but I think they were at least decent and would have helped.

http://binarybeast.com/xSC21408093

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15qVLzsq06zfcyj1EdFWqP-1PeFuY3VCZWtZAETdc4wk/edit#gid=1025262731

So I do hope that Ahmed will do in the future something like this, as it is a nice format and I will be happy to help him with it.

Ahmed is in the moment a little bit busy, but he does have a lot of ideas for new formats of tournaments, to keep it also in the future interesting for all.

09-Oct-2014
23:05 PDT

@yiannakos
I believe my team had already started matches against Iran2 team before ur message(by the way I received ur only 1 PM not 2).
So there is no way to FORFEIT any match, U should hv inquired team Iran before deciding anything (I hv just saved screenshots of my games against Iran2)
@catquest
Thanks for ur advocating   and digging up such a good point, I read every post on this forum and definitely I hv read all posts regarding NT also but frankly speaking, I still don't have any idea about "Home team" and challenging theory and I think 90% other players also dont hv any info about it.
@other discussion
I know David did some work to help in this tourney and got no response and got disappointed, He even prepared last NT's tables without anyone's asking just for future record..u guys can see it here
http://binarybeast.com/x1404179

And the unofficial page is always working fine,If any1 reports any bug its fixed within 24 hours...As I said in the past, we are not professionals so need ur feedback to improve and fix all things on our page.
Thanks oldman and tax for ur support. We will keep running our tourneys till ZE hears us out and start some new innovative tourneys.  


Dear All, I just lost a very dear one close to me a couple of days ago, so I am not in a mood to wrestle this further.Lets bury this here and move ahead... We are here to play and enjoy BG lets focus on our real objective.
If time will allow then we will start few new exciting tourneys very soon. hv a good time

09-Oct-2014
23:29 PDT

Match Day 1
Group A
UK2 - Canada 11-5 (res)
Romania1 - Iran1 7-5 (res)
Group B
UK1 - CIS 10-6 (res)
USA - Netherlands 9-7 (res)
Group C
Romania2 - Col-Pak 7-5 (res)
Germany - Iran2 11-1 (res)

Match Day 2
Group A
Romania1 - UK2 12-4 (res)
Canada - Iran1 8-6
Group B
UK1 - Netherlands 7-7
CIS - USA 8-6
Group C
Germany - Col-Pak 6-6 (res)
Iran2 - Romania2 7-5 (res)

Match Day 3
Group A
Romania1 - Canada 9-6
UK2 - Iran1 2-2
Group B
USA - UK1 7-4
CIS - Netherlands 1-0
Group C
Romania2 - Germany 11-5 (res)
Iran2 - Col-Pak 9-0 (res)