FFRs 1st Ultimate Chess Tournament!!!

[lumphoboextreme]

I'm fairly bad but I might play.

[ULTIMATE CHESS TOURN]

Well we are up to almost ten and a half players!!! (one user has only paid 2/5 of their entry fee :3

Ideally we are striving for at least 16 players, as it would make brackets a lot easier to manage and draw up at the start.

We also ask that if people haven't already, please ensure that you don't have PMs turned off. As this will make it rather difficult to update you on the happenings as they unfold.


Tell your friends! We are only a few people away from a nice tourn and a very juicy 100k+ prizepool ~___~

[lumphoboextreme]

well i'll hop in.

[emerald000]

Oh yes! Get ready to be crushed.


PS: Wouldn't it be better to play live games instead of correspondence games? It can easily take over a month for such a game to finish. If you want the tournament to finish this year, it might be better to have live games (as long as it is not lightning games, I hate that).

[nois-or-e]

Emerald: I think there was a little confusion.

The idea as stated in the op is, 3 day rounds + a day to organise the matches.

e.g.
- Brackets go up
- 1 day for people to organise match time with opponent
- 3 days for match to take place (to allow peoples schedules)
- Results tallied, next round commences, bracket updated


With 16 players, after 2 rounds (8 days), we would be down to the final 4, where matches would be best of 3. So round 3 wil probably be given a week to complete all 2/3 games before the Grand Finale.

That being said: There is no pressure on people to play blitz matches. If you and your opponent agree on one, that is cool, it is up to you. I, for one, refuse to play matches <5mins. Cos to be honest, i get slaughtered. I generally play chess with friends while drinking, and enjoy taking the occassional time to think (plus if I need to afk due to my daughter, it gives me that luxury :L ) So to any of my opponents, i'll probably opt for a 15|0/5/10 match, depending on how they are inclined. (though I am not against perhaps playing 10|0/5/10)

Once we get 16 players, as this is the first of these tourneys and it is unlikely that we will hit 32 players, Maggie and I will contact everyone and get the finer details ironed out so everyone is on the same page.


tl;dr
- rounds 3 days + day to organise matches
- 3rd round and grand finale will be approx 1 week long each
- if we hit 16 players, contact will be made, details ironed out, tourn might start early

[krunkykai22]

I'll join. I'm actually pretty good at chess.

[Bluearrowll]

In

edit: chess.com username is Bluearrowll

[nois-or-e]

o wow, 20k donation from frankie!! <3 Much appreciated mate

Maggie is handling sign-ups and stuff, so i'll let her stumble upon that later today and shit a kitten xD

[DarknessXoXLight]

I updated the list! Can't wait for this to start. >:]

Also, Jae, Emithith isn't signing up, he only donated credits. :P Unless he wants to of course in which he's more than welcome but I have yet to hear word that he's in.

EDIT: If I don't have a blue name next to you in the entrants list, I need your username from chess.com. Please post it here or PM me it some time before the rounds start.

[nois-or-e]

whups x:

I just looked at the cred transactions on the account haha xD

[master q60]

in.



EDIT: username is masterq60

[krunkykai22]

Username on Chess.com = krunkykai22

[emerald000]

I misread about the time format. I thought you meant to play by correspondence.

In this case, since the rounds are pretty quick, shouldn't we use the swiss format? It gives the chance to everyone to play the same number of games. Since there seem to be a huge range of skill, that should be more fun to everyone.

And chess.com account is: emerald3x0.

[lumphoboextreme]

Username=lolhotdogz.

[Hakulyte]

Originally Posted by emerald000

I misread about the time format. I thought you meant to play by correspondence.

In this case, since the rounds are pretty quick, shouldn't we use the swiss format? It gives the chance to everyone to play the same number of games. Since there seem to be a huge range of skill, that should be more fun to everyone.

And chess.com account is: emerald3x0.

+1 with this.

Also joining with hakulyte. Playing everyone would be more fun than getting eliminated by someone with a high rating real quick.

Edit:

[nois-or-e]

K, we have 15 players now, just haven't added q60 to maggies post. If it pleases everyone, I can chat to maggie and we can see about a slightly different format.

My only concern, is the time-frame of playing all those games. This is the 1st chess tourn, and should it go successfully, i'd be more inclined to make the 2nd one under a different format depending on how people go with playing multiple games in a short time period. By my calculations, this tournament with 16 participants will only take 3 weeks to end, at which point registrations can start for another.

Thoughts/ideas?

[emerald000]

You can simply do a swiss tournament with 4 rounds. It will take the same amount of time, but everyone will get to play all 4 rounds. It will also be a lot easier to handle draws than with elimination.

[Sweagen]

My username for Chess.com is Sweagenv2

[Eeumi]

looks like i can play so im in ^^ username eeumi

[Artic_counter]

I'm in.

My chess.com username is Artic_counter

I've got a rating of 900 or something, so I guess you can tell how much I suck lol. I like the game though.