Backgammon Online

26-Aug-2023
14:09 PDT

Congratulations to Petertwyman on his FIRST BBL trophy!

A big round of applause to all playoff participants:
Basia72 - Finalist
Jart238 and Jubilee - Semifinalists
Nightking, Schenevmerla, Xapko87, and Gem001 - Quarterfinalists
Mariusadi, Leoton, Estorba, Kev Howlett, Rio1962, Laurakim, Blokhin2, and Maidann - Sweet 16 participants

As usual, all players who made the playoffs, received their bonus points in the overall League Leaderboard. Please check the current standing on our website.

As we completed our prior tournament in just 17 days, this one took longer, exactly one month. Let’s try to beat our record in BBL-20 as I will open it for registration on September 12!

See you all in BBL-20 soon!

Best,
Leoton

11-Sep-2023
18:06 PDT

Friends,

BBL-20 Registration is now open. Please use our usual website link to register for the new tournament (https://tinyurl.com/ze-bbl).

Hope to see you all returning to the tournament and having a good time! The group seeding and all games will begin on September 26.

Best,
Leoton

26-Sep-2023
05:46 PDT

Friends,

I wanted to welcome all 36 returning players to our BBL-19 tournament!

Based on the snapshot of participants’ ratings as of September 26, the four-group seeding is now set and all games can begin! Each group has nine players, so each of you will play 8 games on the group stage. The top FOUR players from each group will go to the 1/8 finals with the playoff portion of the tournament being conducted on a best-of-three basis. All games must use the BG format only.

As always, I would like to reiterate that this is a blitz league and when you signed up, you agreed to play fast, abide by the rules and code of conduct, and timely report individual results on our BBL website.

IMPORTANT: Please update your challenge criteria to ensure you can be challenged by your group opponents or challenge them yourself first! Check your ignore lists too. Please avoid any delays as all your group games must start by October 1!

In order to see who your group opponents are, please go to the home page of the BBL website (https://tinyurl.com/ze-bbl - bookmark this page!) where you will find the link to the Results page. Everything is set up on that page, including a ZE challenge link for each group opponent, created for your convenience. Click that link for each of your group opponents and your BBL-20 challenge will automatically open on ZE.

On the home page of the BBL website, you will find the result submission form. The winner of each individual game should fill in this form within 24 hours of completion in the following format: Player A - Player B 1:0, Gammon (if applicable).

I intend to update the results multiple times a day as I get automated notifications on your result submissions. Please review the results page often, and, if you are not seeing some of your results, please don’t hesitate to submit them even if you lost a game. Your assistance here is greatly appreciated.

Here are a few additional suggestions to speed up the games:
a) Communicate with your opponents to see what time of the day is best for both of you to be online.
b) If you happen to be on the losing side and your game is out of reach, consider resigning and updating the website with the result yourself as your opponent might not notice that the game was over.

As usual, feel free to connect with me directly if you have any issues, questions, or concerns

Best,
Leoton
https://tinyurl.com/ze-bbl

30-Sep-2023
08:22 PDT

Group 2 - we're all waiting on laurakim to get her ass into life and play now and then.

She really hasn't grasped the "blitz" in "blitz league" has she?

Leoton, grow a pair and ban her from subsequent tourneys?

It's ruining it for the rest of us who are trying hard to play fast.

30-Sep-2023
08:38 PDT

Muratk - while I indeed noticed that several players in the league were playing slower than expected, our league has always been a very friendly competition so I would very much prefer that you were more polite in your messages.

Thanks,
Leoton

30-Sep-2023
09:09 PDT

ok, so how long should we wait for laurakim to actually make some moves?

Hint: the tourney has the word "blitz" in its title.

01-Oct-2023
06:25 PDT

Why would anyone cry about another person's speed of play on the day BEFORE the official starting date???

Also, Leoton does an amazing job running BBL. Neither he nor we need your crassly worded contributions.

01-Oct-2023
06:50 PDT

Apologies, particularly to leoton, if my post came across the wrong way.

But the point stands, I just could have worded it better.

01-Oct-2023
18:17 PDT

Is there a way to tell through the stats which player is stalling?

PS I didn't have auto rolls on but I've been finished for days.

Someone needs to fire a warning shot followed up by a boot...

I'll tell nightking to put it in gear  

01-Oct-2023
18:43 PDT

Some stats to put things in perspective… according to the rules, the official START of the tournament is today, October 1… and we are currently 72% done (102 of 144 completed as of right now). 5 players completed all their group games, another 9 have only one game left. Can we all do better in terms of the faster play? Absolutely, but we are not too far behind the pace we had in our fastest tournament ever too.

@Jart238 - unfortunately, I am just a regular user of this website, so I have the same access to the available stats as you all do. Thank you (and everyone else who is done or almost there) for playing really fast, others - please make an effort to complete the group stage quickly that we could start the playoffs! Communicate with your opponents - this could be the best way to ensure you are online at the same time!

Let’s all have fun and enjoy the league!

Best,
Leoton