Backgammon Online

14-Aug-2024
21:46 PST

Congratulations to Leoton and all listed above ...
The rest of us - we're just following the implied Olympic principle of "Participation is important!"

15-Aug-2024
10:15 PST

Leoton wtg

12-Sep-2024
06:35 PST

Friends,

BBL-26 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 September 26. Please reserve your place in the tournament early!

Best,
Leoton

26-Sep-2024
06:39 PST

Friends,
I wanted to welcome 32 returning players to our BBL-26 tournament! We have a few regular players who couldn't participate, so we will have each group having 8 players this time.

Based on the snapshot of participants’ ratings as of September 26, the four-group seeding is now set and all games can begin! 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, which is created for your convenience. Click that link for each group opponent, 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).

As usual, 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

04-Oct-2024
16:27 PST

I'm tied with the mighty SteelerHead...

10-Oct-2024
09:54 PST

It is October 10th. There is nothing "blitz" like about a "Blitz tournament" that takes 10 days to play one game in the first round!

I'm sorry if you disagree but it's simply ridiculous IMHO.

10-Oct-2024
11:31 PST

I agree with BossyBear, this was brought up before. I recall one idea was to issue yellow card for every game that was not finished by a certain date (group stage only.)
I'd say 5th day of the month would be a good cutoff date (9-10 days to finish the game since the tournament starts on the 26th of the previous month)
Shall we try this approach and see if it helps?!

10-Oct-2024
12:17 PST

This terrible game spoiled all my enjoyment of moving on to the next round.
In addition to being slow, it started incorrectly - 3 days.
I am disappointed, angry and the worse - already indifferent.

12-Oct-2024
05:35 PST

The stallers need to be identified and put on suspension.

Stay and play.

There has to be an accessible stat to see who took the most time. Forced turns isn't as important as playing fast. Force turns might come into play once a game but playing fast is every move.

12-Oct-2024
10:31 PST

Mentor777 took a very long time in the qualifying round. Longest game by far