Backgammon Online

13-Feb-2010
12:39 PDT

So no human being who plays here should be allowed to have a life? They must interrupt their honeymoon, surgery, or cruise at least once every three days. Sorry, that is not a very well thought out statement.

13-Feb-2010
13:31 PDT

Than shouldn't they surge, cruise or moon in just friendly games?

13-Feb-2010
13:49 PDT

And ladder.

14-Feb-2010
06:28 PDT

that there are people in this world who have nothing in their life more important than a computer game.

14-Feb-2010
07:17 PDT

It's sad to be sad about that..

14-Feb-2010
09:29 PDT

Whitedice,
reading your comments about taking suspicious vacations, I noticed that one of guys in my February tournament group is on vacation for a week now, but his profile status shows that he is online several times everyday!
I guess he wants to see the result of other games first and then decide whom he should beat to become the winner of this group  )

14-Feb-2010
10:49 PDT

Thank you, Artin 76, first of all, for responding to the matter.
The case I was referring to is now playing regularly, and wins them all, up to now. But that player
didn't take just a week. Taking vacation from day one until you're out of possibilities to do so is annoying, and shouldn't be allowed in tournaments.

15-Feb-2010
07:32 PDT

It would be a great idea, however, as you can see, these 3 days per move tournaments take up to 4 or 5 months as evidenced by tournaments one and two which are the only ones finished or close to finished. Therefore you can't expect people to not take vacation in 5 months. I suggested in another post to reduce the time between rounds to the 3 day rule to save 4 days(instead of the 7 day break in the rules) in between each round. that might save 16 days in a 4 round tournament. That would help.Vacation days are a staple of this format of so many days per move. It would be nice if committed players would finish a round in two weeks and with a 3 day break between weeks to confirm tournaments would finish much faster.
Not sure this would work but here is an idea:
Zoo could set a rule that after two weeks the leader of each group moves on unless the leader is delaying on purpose in losing matches to preserve his/her lead. Things get complicated.

15-Feb-2010
08:08 PDT

I didn't expect it to be easy, but is it so dificult to not subscribe to a tournament, if your planning a vacation?

15-Feb-2010
08:16 PDT

Take holidays out, and tournaments wouldn't take that long.