Backgammon Online

12-Mar-2022
07:21 PST

Friends,

I would like to invite you to register for our 11th BBL tournament! Same link as always: https://tinyurl.com/ze-bbl

As usual, the number of open seats is limited to 36 players with the group seeding and tournament games begin on March 26. If you would like to participate, please make sure to register quickly!

Similarly to the previous tournaments, when you go to our website to sign up, you’ll need to check “I agree” box, confirming that you will follow BBL Rules and Code of Conduct, submit results within 24 hours, and begin all group games by April 1, 2022.

Please note that the Code of Conduct has been updated. It now includes the following paragraph implementing additional enforcements to avoid delays:

“Players who failed to start any games by the Official Tournament Start Date, submit results within 24 hours from completion of the game they won, or cause noticeable delays without any written notice to the host of the tournament will be issued a warning ("yellow card"), captured in the Results page. Players who receive more than 5 warnings during a current tournament shall miss the next tournament. Those receiving more than 10 warnings during a current tournament shall be disqualified from that tournament and their results will be stricken out.”

Looking forward to having another great tournament with you all!

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

26-Mar-2022
05:40 PST

Friends,

The group seeding, based on the snapshot of participants’ rating as of March 26, has been completed and all games can now begin! As usual, we will have 36 players, so each of you will be guaranteed at least 17 games in the group tournament.

I would like to welcome 1 new and 35 returning players to our BBL-11 tournament!

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 make sure you challenge them yourself first! All of your 17 group games must be started by April 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 now set up on that page, including a ZE challenge link for each of your group opponents, created for your convenience. Simply click that link for each of your group opponents and your BBL-11 challenge will automatically open on ZE.

The home page of the BBL website has also the result submission form where the winner of each individual game should fill in upon completion of the game in the following format:
Player A - Player B 1:0, Gammon (if applicable). Remember to submit your results within 24 hours of completion to avoid any delays.

Also, please note that starting this tournament, the following language has been added to the Code of Conduct per players' request to enforce speedy games:

“Players who failed to start any games by the Official Tournament Start Date, submit results within 24 hours from completion of the game they won, or cause noticeable delays without any written notice to the host of the tournament will be issued a warning ("yellow card"), captured in the Results page. Players who receive more than 5 warnings during a current tournament shall miss the next tournament. Those receiving more than 10 warnings during a current tournament shall be disqualified from that tournament and their results will be stricken out.”

As usual, I intend to update the results multiple times a day. In order to speed the pace up, 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 lost a game. Your assistance here is greatly appreciated.

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

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

01-Apr-2022
06:06 PST

Friends,

Today is the official start of BBL-11 - the day when all games must at least be started!

Similar to the pace of the last tournament, we have 76% of group games already completed. Several players have already completed all their 17 games - thank you!

Please take a moment to review the results page on our BBL website and make sure all of your completed games were captured. If for any reason you haven't been able to begin any of your outstanding games or haven't submitted your results, please do it today to stay in compliance with the Rules and Code of Conduct.

Any non-started games or non-reported results of your victories will be marked as yellow card warnings after today on the results page!

We are off to a great start, let's make sure we finish this tournament in the same blitz fashion!

Please connect with me if you have any questions or concerns.
Good luck to all,
Leoton

10-Apr-2022
13:22 PST

Congrats to our playoff participants!

Here are the pairings for the quarterfinals:

Quarterfinal 1
Maxmator
Scarrd

Quarterfinal 2
Mariusadi
Gem001

Quarterfinal 3
Lilwarrior
Nightking

Quarterfinal 4
Isnogood_68
Eagle-tee

The same rules as always for the playoffs apply. Please begin your best of three matches (1 BG, 1 NG, and 1 AD game in each match) and report results promptly on the website

Best,
Leoton

30-Apr-2022
07:47 PST

Congratulations to Mariusadi on his first BBL trophy!

A big round of applause to all playoff participants:
Isnogood_68 - Finalist
Lilwarrior and Scarrd - Semifinalists
Maxmator, Eagle-tee, Nightking, and Gem001 - Quarterfinalists

A huge thank you to all players for yet another great tournament!

The registration for BBL-12 will be open on May 12th. Please make sure to reserve your seats early as the tournaments tend to get full within a couple of days!

See you all back soon!

Leoton

12-May-2022
05:18 PST

Friends,

I would like to invite you to register for our 12th BBL tournament! Same link as always: https://tinyurl.com/ze-bbl

As usual, the number of open seats is limited to 36 players with the group seeding and tournament games begin on May 26. If you would like to participate, please make sure to register quickly!

Similarly to the previous tournaments, when you go to our website to sign up, you’ll need to check “I agree” box, confirming that you will follow BBL Rules and Code of Conduct, submit results within 24 hours, and begin all group games by June 1, 2022.

Please note that the Code of Conduct, updated before the last tournament to include measures for avoiding delays, is still in place.

Looking forward to having another great tournament with you all!

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

12-May-2022
08:30 PST

oops I put yes as user name by accident  

26-May-2022
06:34 PST

Friends,

The group seeding, based on the snapshot of participants’ ratings as of May 26, has been completed and all games can now begin! As usual, we will have 36 players, so each of you will be guaranteed at least 17 games in the group tournament.

I would again like to welcome 1 new and 35 returning players to our BBL-12 tournament!

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 make sure you challenge them yourself first! All of your 17 group games must be started 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 now 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-12 challenge will automatically open on ZE.

The home page of the BBL website also has the result submission form which the winner of each individual game should fill in upon completion of the game in the following format:
Player A - Player B 1:0, Gammon (if applicable). Remember to submit your results within 24 hours of completion to avoid any delays.

As usual, I intend to update the results multiple times a day. In order to speed the pace up, 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 lost a game. Your assistance here is greatly appreciated.

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

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

26-May-2022
09:24 PST

I stupidly challenged a bunch of players in the wrong blitz group. Please just refuse them. (I am limited on cancelling!)

01-Jun-2022
10:09 PST

Friends,

Today is the official start of BBL-12 - the day when all games must at least be started!

We have now over 70% of group games already completed, which is slightly behind the pace we had in the last couple of tournaments but still pretty good! A couple of players have already completed all their 17 games - thank you!

IMPORTANT: Please take a moment to review the results page on our BBL website and make sure all of your completed games were captured. If for any reason you haven't been able to begin any of your outstanding games or haven't submitted your results, please do it today to stay in compliance with the Rules and Code of Conduct.

Any non-started games or non-reported results of your victories will be marked as yellow card warnings after today on the results page!

We are off to a great start, let's make sure we finish this tournament in the same blitz fashion!

Please connect with me if you have any questions or concerns.
Good luck to all,
Leoton