2 d/12 • Nackgammon • 2h

Rated • Arena

This tournament is part of the Mind Sports Olympiad's 2024 Grand Prix.

2 minutes with a 12 second delay for each game. Play as much as you can within 2 hours. Win streaks gain bonus points. Berserk mode is optional before the start of each game, and will halve a player's time and get rid of the time delay, but a Berserk win will gain extra bonus points.

For more information and to register with the MSO please visit: mindsportsolympiad.com/product/mso-grand-prix-2024-player-registration/
Registration is free, and will ensure that you are eligible for category scoring and any medals earned from this tournament!

This tournament will use the Arena system, which is likely to be unfamiliar to regular backgammon players. The tournament is a fixed length in time (in this case, 2 hours) and players will play as many games as they can in the time period. You are paired with whoever is waiting for a game at the same time and so you may end up facing some opponents more than once, and you may play more or less games than other players depending on how many games you get through. This may all sounds strange but it is a very popular format in the online Chess world, and is a skill in itself. The full details about Arena tournaments are here: playstrategy.org/tournament/help?system=arena

Entry requirements:

Must be in team Mind Sports Olympiad

Berserk Clock: 2 d/0

9 Mar 2024, 15:30

Chat room

tebatlatable I came in time then .. about 30 seconds I was late
tebatlatable please check that match
berserker gg
berserker someone managed a 3 finally :)
BlackGoesFirst ff
BlackGoesFirst gg
tebatlatable and the checkers sometimes gets blurred / pixelated
tebatlatable why is that ??
berserker haven't seen that issue yet for me
tebatlatable now I play again with pergioco, was the match reset ?
statmatt Sorry tebatlatable it doesnt look like you completed your first turn within the 60 seconds required
statmatt The match wasn't reset. In arena you may play the same opponent multiple times
tebatlatable pretty sure I was not missing more than 30 s
tebatlatable there might be lag
Jheps that can be if they haven't loaded fully, f5 should resolve that, and over time it will improve
tebatlatable on the server
tebatlatable I did refreshed the page, still blurred are some checkers
tebatlatable very bad platform for backgammon
olidan STOP
olidan please
dana68 I liked
dana68 its funny
statmatt If you want to mute the chat you can click the green square in the top right corner of the 'chat room' box
statmatt PlayStrategy takes network lag into account with the clocks. You can also see the network lag here: playstrategy.org/lag
berserker gg
Jheps gg so close
tebatlatable ok stattmat, thanks .. maybe my timing was bad
berserker yeah I think a cube would have won it for you many times over
Jheps the beauty of single point :P
CrissRoma I can't move
Jheps if you get into trouble press f5
CrissRoma I'm from mobile
Jheps you can click on the pieces on the bar to drop crissRoma
CrissRoma Doesn't let me move the second one
Jheps or on the square they would land on
tebatlatable for what is the PAUSE button above the tourney lobby ?
Jheps if you wish to take a break and not get paired anymore, you can re-join when ready
tebatlatable thanks Jheps .. ok, that is what I should have done before my first pairing with pergioco
Jheps good to know for next time :)
berserker gg
tebatlatable if we are watching a game, we are announced when we are paired with someone else ?
statmatt gg
statmatt the tournament page shows the games in play, so if you haven't paused its best to watch from the tournament page
Jheps There should be a noise or notification, you have to return to the tournament after a game however to get paired again
Jheps gg
tebatlatable ok
tebatlatable but here in arena format, matches lost don't count ? only wins ?
berserker gg
Jheps only wins for backgammon count
Jheps in other games you get half points for draw (e.g. chess)
tebatlatable no, I mean for this nackgammon tourney
Jheps in this tournament 0 points for a loss
tebatlatable if someone have say 5 wins and 5 loses and someone else have only 5 wins and 0 losses, they both accumulated same number of points ?
tebatlatable for standings ?
tebatlatable of the tourney
Jheps not always for arena tournaments
ComplixVandh got lucky
Michaelco cum se intra cand ai doua piese pe bar?
tebatlatable for this tourney I mean
tebatlatable because this entirely changes the strategy
Speedy81 Mich
Jheps navigate to our FAQ page for info about arena tournament
Speedy81 apesi pe locul unde vrei sa bagi a doua piesa
Jheps and yes there is strategy to accumulate the most points!
tebatlatable la mine au intrat amandoua piesele de pe bara ca folosesc mutari automate la mutarile fortate
Speedy81 nu am gasit setarea asta
Jheps click: play -> arena tournaments -> Arena Tournament FAQ
Jheps preferences for forced move are under game behaviour
Jheps you can also hit space bar to end your turn
berserker gg
berserker sorry you can get it to play forced move
CrissRoma How I can put berserk mode?
olidan :-(
olidan sorry
statmatt Before you take your first turn you need to click the swords button next to the clock
Kazdit what
olidan wrong click
Kazdit oh...
CrissRoma Thank you
olidan yes......
olidan jheps
olidan i suggest the undo button is far from the resign button :-(
Jheps thanks for the feedback, we agree and will look to move this - not today unfortunately so be careful!
Speedy81 Bv Florin
berserker gg
statmatt gg
SOLFAREMI I cannot plya what I want
statmatt click on the dice to reorder
statmatt and press the arrow to undo
statmatt arrow above the clock
SOLFAREMI I cannot plau after clickinf
SOLFAREMI It worked finally thanks
Jheps great
berserker so now trying switching off everything including undo to see if I can lag low enough to berserk
Jheps hitting space bar to end your turn might help with that david
berserker ok doewn't work
SOLFAREMI I cannot get off the bar...
statmatt click on the 2 point space
statmatt ah were you replaying moves?
berserker gg
berserker no it doesn't I can play a 150s game and have optimal clicking down but need to have an autopass
berserker I tried turning off takeback and pass
berserker but doesn't do anything here
ComplixVandh buen juego, Daniel
berserker can I borrow your programmer's dice matt ;)
statmatt haha ;)
statmatt That was 66, 66, 55!
berserker gg
statmatt gg, much luck on my side there
ComplixVandh gg
berserker gg
BlackGoesFirst gg
SOLFAREMI I was playing normally and had 2 discs on the bar. I got 4-2. I hit a disc and played 4 but when hitting the other disc I couldn't have 2.
SOLFAREMI Any reason why ?
statmatt which game was that?
SOLFAREMI The one you helped me before.
berserker there is a change in behaviour between dice 1 & 2 in that situation and there is also o NAN bug
SOLFAREMI The change in behaviour troubled me...
Jheps where do you see the NAN bug?
berserker gg
berserker At distance left to go
berserker there is an F5 fix
berserker happens with 2 men on bar and hitting 2 men I think
Jheps ah okay thanks
statmatt thanks
berserker though cvould be coincidence
HawaiiBlue many romanian players, it's a popular game there?
SOLFAREMI Yes
HawaiiBlue I played once but I forgot the rules
HawaiiBlue let's try anyway
berserker gg
olidan amazing
ComplixVandh a weird bug wasn't letting me get my pieces out of the bar
ComplixVandh but it got fixed bny changing the order
statmatt who was that against?
ComplixVandh daallo
SOLFAREMI Close!
statmatt thanks
statmatt so close!
berserker opps when was that a single
berserker must have missed something a while back
berserker gg
silviu gm
statmatt congratulations mrtake and the rest of the podium!
SOLFAREMI I still didn't find what to do to change my mind when I played something and want to play another move...
Jheps well played all, close at the top congrats to the medalists
statmatt if any players noticed any problems and can point us to specific moves in specific games that would be very helpful for us
knightleap Thx for the tournament
Jheps you have to press undo button Marc, which is an arrow icon under the move list
SOLFAREMI Yes, but after that I cannot play a different move!
knightleap Glitchy sometimes coming off the bar w a second checker
statmatt we've made a note of several, but please message me or jheps privately with details
SOLFAREMI OK. Thanks
statmatt thanks, yep we've got that one
Coppiere will this count towards the backgammon general standings?
statmatt and SOLFAREMI you need to click the undo arrow. its next to the resign button
Speedy81 Congrats Florin & TTT
statmatt this will count towards the backgammon general standings
Coppiere ok, when can we see the updated standings?
statmatt not sure, there will be an announcement in discord when they are ready
tebatlatable if I would have won my last match (started at 17:25 and finished after 17:30), 2 points would have been awarded for my win or not ?
statmatt i would hope for monday at latest
kevinbennet how does the ranking work again when there's 2 with the same number of points? I saw it explained somewhere but can't remember where
berserker gg
mrtake thank you. very close
Coppiere and thanks for organising this event, it was fun indeed, I am sorry to hear that someone had tech issues, to me it went all fine
CrissRoma Bravo.. Congratulations Florin!
berserker it was that one berserk game
statmatt @kevinbennet good point, it is fewest games. so this puts you into second place on this tiebreaker
berserker ah sorry no you managed 3
SOLFAREMI Thank you everybody (and mostly to people running this site)!
statmatt so the medals are swapped from what is shown
tebatlatable congrats Flo
statmatt for silver and bronze
kevinbennet @statmatt yeah i wasn't 100% sure as there were less games and the head2head also won :D, either way well done everyone
statmatt any games that are completed after the end time of the tournament do not count towards the standings
Michaelco pentru a face muarile fortate automat, ce setare trebuie facuta?
tebatlatable ok stattmat thank you
Coppiere I don't get it?! seems like the tiebreaker according to PS is h2h, but for the GP standings the least games played will count as first tb?
Michaelco ...mutarile...
tebatlatable well done everyone
statmatt /tournament/help?system=arena
statmatt if you paste that after playstrategy.org
statmatt you can see this explained here
tebatlatable at one point I tried to play in berserk mode but could not find the button
statmatt its the swords button next to the clock
tebatlatable anyway, I don't think I could have completed that game in 2 minutes
tebatlatable yes, I was looking for some swords near the clock but could not see any
statmatt the way the standings are shown on PS is ordered by 'performance' which is based on opponents ratings. this isnt suitable for the MSO
statmatt it was explained in the chat at the start that ties would be broken based on fewest games played
Coppiere I see, so for the GP the tiebreaker should be least games played
statmatt but that seems to have been lost in the chat due to so many messages!
statmatt for the GP yes
Coppiere got it, thanks!
Coppiere wp all and congrats to the podium !
statmatt the PlayStrategy Medley will start in a few minutes for those interested in Abstract games on PlayStratregy
Coppiere another q: there is no option to join the backgammon 1pt of tonight, yet?
statmatt you will be able to join 1 hour from the start time :)
Coppiere ok c u later bye!!
Coppiere thx!

Tournament complete

Average rating	1566
Games played	212
Turns played	11,792
Player 1 wins	49%
Player 2 wins	51%
Draws	0%
Berserk rate	8%

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1pt Nackgammon - MSO Grand Prix 2024 Arena

kevinbennet

Performance	1877
Games played	17
Win rate	71%
Berserk rate	0%

mrtake

Performance	1889
Games played	19
Win rate	68%
Berserk rate	21%

tebatlatable

Performance	1921
Games played	19
Win rate	74%
Berserk rate	0%

1	mrtake 1774	2244540022500032402	41
2	kevinbennet 1889?	20200022444444440	40
3	tebatlatable 1910?	2202244444402202002	40
4	lupo_wolf 2004?	2020220324544402	36
5	deliap 1898?	0224444022440200	34
6	oruro 1784	00200022444440224	34
7	ellanios112 1880	22022402240220022030	31
8	BlackGoesFirst 1789?	22002022444020	24
9	Speedy81 1755	22444000200202	22
10	CrissRoma 1737	2244002002200002020	22