Backgammon Online

20-Dec-2023
04:48 PST

Wishes for good health and luck!

22-Dec-2023
15:49 PST

Shout out to Steelerhead. No way that was a 3-0 match. One game in particular went back and forth, 44 move BG game, several hits and escapes. Too much fun Steelerhead! I was fortunate.

24-Dec-2023
10:11 PST

Close finishing game with Lilwarrior. Fast and fun 3 games.
Congratulations!

24-Dec-2023
10:12 PST

Just in time for Christmas!  

Congratulations to Lilwarrior on his first BBL trophy!

A big round of applause to all playoff participants:
Laurakim - Finalist
Blokhin2 and Steelerhead - Semifinalists
Maidann, Tatcat, Jart238, and Estorba - Quarterfinalists
BossyKitten, Mentor777, Maxmator, Basia72, Nightking, Schenevmerla, Xapko87, and Whisk01 - 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.

See you all in BBL-22 soon. Registration will be open on January 12.

Huge thanks to everyone and Happy Holidays!

Leoton

12-Jan-2024
04:58 PST

Friends,

BBL-22 Registration is now open. Please use our usual website link to register for the new tournament (https://tinyurl.com/ze-bbl).

NOTE: In order to further avoid significant delays during our blitz tournaments, the following language has been added to our Code of Conduct:

The host of the league has the right to disqualify any player who postponed their games for 5 days or more to prevent significant tournament delays.

Hope to see you all back! The group seeding and all games will begin on January 26.

Best,
Leoton

26-Jan-2024
05:34 PST

Happy Australia Day everyone.

What an auspicious day to start BBL-22. Let the fun begin...

26-Jan-2024
05:55 PST

Friends,

I wanted to welcome 1 new and 34 returning players to our BBL-22 tournament! Please note that we have one open slot since one of the registered players let their rating go lower than 1700. Per rules, this player has been temporarily suspended but will have the ability to rejoin before the official start date if their rating reaches the threshold again.

Based on the snapshot of participants’ ratings as of January 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 February 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-22 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. 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

20-Feb-2024
11:41 PST

Thank you to all of you for a quick tournament and especially for the super fast final match!

Congratulations to Estorba on his first BBL trophy!

A big round of applause to all playoff participants:
Schenevmerla - Finalist
Rondango and Steelerhead - Semifinalists
Blokhin2, Eagle-tee, KumaraKid, and Rio1962 - Quarterfinalists
Esprit, Slimshadey, Howler, Laurakim, Nightking, Jart238, Xapko87, and Maidann - 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.

See you all in BBL-23 soon. Registration will be open on March 14 (two days later than usual as I will be out until March 13)

Huge thanks to everyone!

Leoton

12-Mar-2024
21:30 PST

Friends,

BBL-23 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 March 26.

Best,
Leoton

26-Mar-2024
06:55 PST

Friends,

I wanted to welcome all 36 returning players to our BBL-23 tournament!

Based on the snapshot of participants’ ratings as of March 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 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 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-22 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. 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