Backgammon Online

15-Apr-2024
05:51 PST

Thank you to all of you for what I think was the fastest tournament ever!

Congratulations to Schenevmerla on his third BBL trophy and taking the commanding lead in our overall BBL Leaderboard with 35 points!

A big round of applause to all playoff participants:
KumaraKid - Finalist
Jubilee and Differentname - Semifinalists
Basia72, Jart238, Steelerhead, and Pointbuilder - Quarterfinalists
Maxmator, Leoton, Blokhin2, Estorba, Rondango, Tatcat, BossyBear, and Mariusadi - Sweet 16 participants

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

See you all in BBL-24 soon. Registration will be open on May 12.

Huge thanks to everyone!

Leoton

12-May-2024
06:44 PST

Friends,

BBL-24 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!

NOTE: The group seeding and all games will begin on May 24, a few days earlier than usual as I will be traveling. Please reserve your place in the tournament early and update your calendar with the new tournament start date for BBL-24.

Best,
Leoton

24-May-2024
06:56 PST

Friends,

I wanted to welcome all 36 returning players to our BBL-24 tournament! As I noted before, we are starting it a few days earlier this month due to my travel schedule.

Based on the snapshot of participants’ ratings as of May 24, 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 June 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 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, but updates could be a bit less frequent this time due to my travel. 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-May-2024
07:24 PST

Personally I don't care if someone doesn't have force turns on but if you're going to stall the game like PointBuilder is doing it ruins the game play for those who just play fast.

Maybe he's taking a nap or has a medical emergency???

27-May-2024
09:46 PST

Force turns are specifically addressed in the BBL rules:
‘Automatic Dice Rolls: On’
Not sure why someone would turn it off to begin with, but doing it in this tournament is against the rules.

27-May-2024
16:40 PST

Force comes into to play barely 2% of the time whereas playing slow is a much more time consuming factor.

Do the rules also state to play fast?

28-May-2024
02:21 PST

Yes, of course they do, but unfortunately, it’s much harder to enforce. Here’s the exact language from the Code of conduct:

The name of the league means everyone agrees to play fast, without unnecessary delays. Please make every attempt to make at least 2-3 moves each day and not stall this league's fast-paced tournaments.

28-May-2024
07:32 PST

How about add to the list of rules that each player must have their green light on, so we can see who shows up and doesn't move?

31-May-2024
06:11 PST

Here's another one, barely one move / day.

31-May-2024
07:04 PST

That's nothing compared to Lolwarrior - I think he/she started only 1(!) BBL game as of today. One yellow card per game that was not started by June 1?