The Lost Bobbies 2005 Tourney

Hegemon

A Lost Bobby

Tournaments

19 Mar 05 13:01

Hegemon

A Lost Bobby

London

Joined: 21 Sep 04
Moves: 20133

19 Mar 05 13:01

Thread for Tourney discussion

Clan link:

http://www.redhotpawn.com/clan/home.php?cid=315

Hege

Hegemon

A Lost Bobby

London

Joined: 21 Sep 04
Moves: 20133

05 Apr 05 14:42

The Lost Bobby's first sponsored tourneys are accepting entries.

Prizes = "Seaching for Bobby Fischer" DVD for winner of each banded tourney.

We were going to offer beer, but were worried about transport laws.

angie88

omnipresent

Joined: 29 Oct 04
Moves: 20009

05 Apr 05 14:43

entered it straight away 😉
so who pays shipping? 😛
lovely idea.

Angie 😀

DOlivier2004

A Lost Bobby

The Bermuda Triangle

Joined: 11 Sep 04
Moves: 7865

05 Apr 05 14:51

We'll pay the shipping, of course.

It's just a matter of figuring out which region DVD to buy for you guys (and which subtitle language and all that good stuff....) It all depends on who wins!

ItsYouThatIAdore

Canada

Joined: 23 Jan 05
Moves: 238120

05 Apr 05 16:03

LOL Well hopefully when i win my section of the tourney you can send one all the way up here to Canada! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

DOlivier2004

A Lost Bobby

The Bermuda Triangle

Joined: 11 Sep 04
Moves: 7865

05 Apr 05 16:08

Jeez, Canada's not that far away, unless you're in the Northwest Territories or Nunavut....

ItsYouThatIAdore

Canada

Joined: 23 Jan 05
Moves: 238120

05 Apr 05 16:15

nahhhh not that far north, closer to the boarder 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Hegemon

A Lost Bobby

London

Joined: 21 Sep 04
Moves: 20133

05 Apr 05 16:51

I am not stopping Lost Bobby's members from entering the tourneys. In fact, I am entering the 1600-1800.

However, if one of us wins a tourney (which I very much doubt) the prize will go to second place.

ItsYouThatIAdore

Canada

Joined: 23 Jan 05
Moves: 238120

05 Apr 05 17:13

That is very noble, i mean very noble Heg!

rhb

Ginger Scum

Paranoia

Joined: 23 Sep 03
Moves: 15902

05 Apr 05 17:37

Originally posted by Hegemon
The Lost Bobby's first sponsored tourneys are accepting entries.

Prizes = "Seaching for Bobby Fischer" DVD for winner of each banded tourney.

We were going to offer beer, but were worried about transport laws.

Nice.

As a UK resident I will look after the beer should I win 🙂

Aiko

Joined: 23 Mar 04
Moves: 264352

05 Apr 05 18:24

Nice initiative.

ohfreak

El Freak0

NW GD Ohio

Joined: 29 Dec 03
Moves: 9600

05 Apr 05 20:08

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W000... one of the all-time great movies w/r/t chess. Last time I looked it was only available on VHS - nifty that it's on DVD now.

What ever happened to the kid who played Josh? I predicted big things for that young man.

Edit - from the imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690051/bio

He's gone Cannuck!

gumbie

The man himself

Totally lost

Joined: 30 Jun 04
Moves: 134707

05 Apr 05 21:15

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Why has the first banded sponsored tournament got such a ridiculously small max player limit the majority of players on the site are between 1200 and 1499 and only 30 can play?!?!? 🙁

Sicilian Sausage

In your face

Joined: 21 Aug 04
Moves: 55993

05 Apr 05 21:34

Originally posted by gumbie
Why has the first banded sponsored tournament got such a ridiculously small max player limit the majority of players on the site are between 1200 and 1499 and only 30 can play?!?!? 🙁

I second that. I'd not even heard about the blooming thing. Got home rom work sat down and there you have it! You can't play with us, nah nah nah nah. Come on folks, let's have at least 64 in a comp of this enormity.😀

Hegemon

A Lost Bobby

London

Joined: 21 Sep 04
Moves: 20133

05 Apr 05 22:22

The combination of 30 people, 7-TO 7-TB, and groups of 6 gave what we thought to be the best combination of:

a) no real time pressure (average TO and TB)
b) relatively quickly finished (only 2 rounds and small group in final)
c) not too many games per person ie 6x6 (We thought 10 was enough)

maybe next time we'll go bigger...