Backgammon Online

01-Oct-2023
19:28 PDT

Especially on the results page's design and organization!

09-Oct-2023
12:42 PDT

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12-Oct-2023
09:12 PDT

Congratulations to Mariusadi on his second BBL trophy! He is currently the overall leader of the league with 32 points!

A big round of applause to all playoff participants:
Erykutzu - Finalist
Maxmator and Leoton - Semifinalists
BossyBear, Tatcat, MuratK, and Lilwarrior - Quarterfinalists
Nightking, Mentor 777, Laurakim, Basia72, Jart238, Petertwyman, KumaraKid, and Slimshadey - 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.

Huge thanks to everyone as this tournament matched the fastest tournament ever in our history. It took just 17 days to complete from start to finish!

See you all in BBL-21 soon. Registration will be open on November 12.

Best,
Leoton

11-Nov-2023
21:16 PDT

Friends,

BBL-21 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 back! The group seeding and all games will begin on November 26.

Best,
Leoton

26-Nov-2023
07:08 PDT

Friends,

I wanted to welcome all 36 returning players to our BBL-21 tournament!

Based on the snapshot of participants’ ratings as of November 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 December 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-21 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).

NOTE: I am traveling today and will not be able to open the result submission form on the website until later in the evening. If you happen to complete any of your games before the website is updated today, please check in later to do it. Appreciate your understanding here.

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

27-Nov-2023
22:22 PDT

Looks like group 4 is blazin a trail  

01-Dec-2023
11:00 PDT

Current Status:
101 of 144 group games complete (70%)
7 players finished all their games

Thank you for playing fast!

Please check the website and add any missing results if applicable.

Thanks
Leoton

10-Dec-2023
19:00 PDT

He's not ready to play. What about players who don't prepare and then we have to wait for days. He complained about me because he had to wait a few minutes one time while I put forced moves on even though I'm almost always one of the first to finish. How about we give him and anyone else an automatic loss after 48 hours?

14-Dec-2023
08:16 PDT

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20-Dec-2023
02:42 PDT

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