SpielByWeb

[Dobinator]

Personally, I don't feel clouded, and I'm grateful to Jeff for running it. I'm sure it's not easy to keep track of it all, and mistakes are inevitable.

It's not like we're paying for this, or that people's lives or well-being are at stake - it's a silly game about polyps, that we're all doing just for fun. I hope.

[freduk]

Jeff,
I'd just like to say thanks for running these tournaments. Mistakes happen, but it's just a friendly tourney. There's no big prize at stake, so it doesn't really matter. I'm having fun, which it what it's there for. Presumably, Danbar is having twice as much fun
If I'm going to question anyone, then I'd have to ask why Danbar didn't raise this before the matches got under way; (s)he must have noticed.

Nevertheless, your efforts are appreciated. Thanks again.
fred

[Kanga]

hagin is clearly way out of line. If he truly feels offended perhaps (s)he should consider not entering tournaments in the future. It's really easy to make mistakes running these tournaments, as Gaditus said there's no easy way to do it, it's all by hand. Restarting the entire tournament is not something I would ever consider doing once games are started. It's tough luck for hagin that he missed out, but given these tournaments are purely for fun, then the "corruption" of the draw by having one player play twice is not important. In the Hac tournaments on several occasions I've allowed players to sign up twice so I got to a round number.

I'm slowly improving my own mechanisms for creating the tournaments, making them (I hope) less error prone. However I'm yet to find a way to automate the entrants - ie make sure i dont miss anyone.

I'm sure that Jeff realises that hagin's response is nothing like the consensus opinion here.

[tphon]

I wasn't going to comment on this further, as Jeff clearly made an innocent mistake but at least he is prepared to make the effort to organise these tournaments for all of our enjoyment

I am now surprised that hagin takes such an attitude when he has been refusing to play in a game he set up and I joined in all competitive spirit of the site.

Jeff, thanks for all your efforts and one error in many posts should be accepted as such and not be taken as offensive. With the goodwill of all organisers and participants we should be able to enjoy many more tournaments.

Paul

[pronoblem]

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[danbar1963]

First of all, hagin, grow up! The face that you got skipped was, I'm sure, a simple mistake. A simple reply of, "I'd have liked to be in this tournament, is there anything that might be done to fix it," would have been appropriate. For you to post the angry replies you have posted is not at all appropriate. If this were my tournament, I'd simply throw you out for lacking manners, and if a decision was made that would require another player, I'd open it up to someone else. Please, this is for fun, don't make Jeff wonder why he bothers.

Jeff, there are a couple of solutions that don't require replaying the entire tournament or just automatically allowing someone into the second round. It should be possible to either replay all the games I was involved in, adding hagin in to the games I shouldn't have been part of. The second solution, which I think would work based on the way you schedule games, would be to replay one of the two sets of games that I'm in. I, of course, would prefer you not replay a set of games if I'm actually doing well in them. Just kidding of course, whichever you chose would be fine with me.

I know this causes some annoyance to those who have already played and won a particular game with me, which in a 3-player game is pretty much a 50/50 shot since I'm guaranteed to not win, but I think those are the fairest solutions.

What do you and the other players think?

danbar1963

[hagin]

[Payton3434]

3player standings through 19 games, with 5 to go(4 of them Nishikawa is in)

[Payton3434]

4 player standings through 21 games out

there are 4 games left and Hagin( 4/5 victories nice work!) and smlait have clinched their way into the final!

tphon can clinch one of the other 2 finalists with a win, and 3 others(Gische, worcesteralo and Freduk) will fight it out for the final spot

[Payton3434]

[Payton3434]

final standings in the 4player 1st round-The final has been setup! Good luck all!