"really easy": I'm not sure what adjective to use, so I said "easy". I don't mean to excite people who want to win because the skill level will be low. I mean to say that it will be easy to participate. (It is online, which may be tricky, so I'll help people find an online game server that's not complicated. I'll make that part easy, I promise!)
The idea is to have a tournament that doesn't interfere too much with the rest of your life by taking up an entire weekend or an entire day. Also, you can play from anywhere, and you might know your opponent. There's also no prize money and literally no prestige involved in winning.
Imagine that you're playing a tournament at your family reunion or with a group of friends in someone's house, except it might be online and you might not know the people you're playing against.
Here's how it works: The tournament organizer (me) emails/harasses/recruits people. By next Friday (3-8-13) I'll make a bracket and put it online, and I'll also tell people who they're playing against, introduce them if need be, make sure they know where they're going to play their match (Yahoo Games, Spreadsheets, PostGammon, etc).
I'll also help people who aren't sure how to play online or who don't know how to play.
I guess we do need some rules.
-Play your own game: Don't use any backgammon computer programs that can analyze moves and tell you the probability of which move is best. Don't get help from other people.
-You will have four days to finish your match. Or maybe a week. Or if you don't finish your match and everyone else is done we will start sending you dirty looks. Just don't take forever. Once you have a winner, email the name of the winner to the tournament organizer. Maybe there will also be a publicly editable tournament bracket.
-Matches will be 5 points. The doubling cube will be used. We'll play with the Crawford rule, but not the Jacoby. If you don't know what this means, I'll explain it in another message soon. The Crawford is basically this: if someone is one point away from winning a match (4 points), both players can't use the doubling cube for one game. After that one game, you can use the doubling cube again in that match.
-The tournament will be single elimination, unless people in the losers bracket really want to keep playing, in which case it will be double or triple elimination as the case may be.
-The winner will get something cool as a prize. Maybe. Otherwise they will get something not cool or nothing at all.
Who will be playing? I'm going to invite friends and family, feel free to do the same! The final bracket will be released on Friday March 8th at 12:01 A.M. Bogotá and Eastern Standard Time.
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