News

[Tomawaky]

Session 23 is closed and the next one will open soon. Wait for my go before playing your match.

Play-off for the Session 23 :
Serafin vs dorbel
paolone vs DirtyHarryII
(those are 11pts Match)

The new session 24 Will start the first of november and will end for Christmas the 27 of december.
For this session the number of silver division will be reduce from 3 to 2.
Master division will be shuffle a little more with the 3 first of each division going to the other.

Subscription for the winter FLGTY always available at http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/flgty/flgty.htm (at the bottom). You can subscribe to it until the end of december.

Last Swiss Round will start the 7 of november, and I will wait for new subscriptions by email for the next year.

For Bago, we have still trouble to find TDs.
Very few for the tuesday and not enough for the sunday.
Every help is welcome.
We are ready to change the time of the sunday one in case of new TDs help us to maintain it but are not available for the actual time.

### Watch out ### Saving Daily Time is changing this night in Europe. So next tuesday session for the BAGO will be played at 21:00 GMT

[Tomawaky]

For Bago, we have still trouble to find TDs.
Very few for the tuesday and not enough for the sunday.
Every help is welcome.
We are ready to change the time of the sunday one in case of new TDs help us to maintain it but are not available for the actual time.

As we do not have anymore TDs for sunday mornig session, the time for sunday BAGO session will change for 23:00 GMT/UTC.

This will be Socksey an Mort who will host this session from the next 13 of november.

Very thanks to both of them.

[Tomawaky]

Session 26 is open and will close the 28 of April.
Play-off are as below :
Sakis vs amarganth
Hardy_whv vs Spock

This is the last month to Subscribe for the Spring FLGTY

Good Luck to all of you

[Tomawaky]

Session 26 is closed.

The new session 27 Will start the first of may and will end the 23 of july.

Play-off for the Session 26 :
juanz vs juggler
Hardy_whv vs CornCob
(those are 11pts Match)

[Hardy_whv]

Playoff CornCob vs. Hardy_whv will take place Tue, 2nd May, 19:00 UTC. Supporters are welcome  


Looking forward,


Peter (CornCob)    

&

Hardy (Hardy_whv)      

[Hardy_whv]

League final

juggler vs. Hardy_whv

will take place today, Sunday, 7 May, 18:00 UTC (20:00 MEZ).

Supporters are welcome  


Hardy    

[Tomawaky]

Last month to Subscribe in our Summer FLGTY

Come here to Sign or to check if you are already in.

[Tomawaky]

Summer FLGTY 2006 is posted

Hi,
I am back from vacation ;-).
Sorry for the delay, I have forgotten to post the bracket before my vacation, so the tourney start a little later than planned.

As you can see the winter and summer tourneys are still not finished.
I tried sometimes to remember you to play your match but it will be great that you do it by your own :-(
I do not want to post any delay cause I like to see all the match played and not have too many forfeit and give advantage for people playing often. That's the spirit of the FLG. But I think you can manage your match a little better. Thanks for your help and enjoy this new tourney.

Tomawaky, always for your pleasure.

[Tomawaky]

I will apply the new Rules for the next session in case of equality.

It's more easy for me to make things automatic. So I just change the order of point 3 and 4.
So now the rules are as below :

1) Total Score.
2) More Wins, if same score.
3 ) Accumulated score of defeated players (for each player, sum the scores of the players he won against), if among three or more players, direct matches equal out (e.g. 1-1, or 2-2,...).
4) Direct Match against each other, if same number of accumulated score.
5) And then Tournament director will decide what to do ;-)) if direct Matches again equal out...

as it was before
1) Total Score.
2) More Wins, if same score.
3) Direct Match against each other, if same number of wins
4) Accumulated score of defeated players (for each player, sum the scores of the players he won against), if among three or more players, direct matches equal out (e.g. 1-1, or 2-2,...).
5) Direct Match of best 2-ply scores-players, if same accumulated score.
6) And then Tournament director will decide what to do ;-)) if direct Matches again equal out...

[Tomawaky]

Session 28 is open and will close the 28 of october.
Play-off are as below :
juggler vs dorbel
juanz vs Hardy_whv

I will apply the new Rules, as explain upper, for the next session in case of equality.

[Hardy_whv]

Play-off are as below :
juggler vs dorbel
juanz vs Hardy_whv

Playoff semifinal

juanz vs. Hardy_whv

is scheduled for Friday, 4 August, 19:00 Central European Summer Time (=1700 GMT).

Supporters are welcome (for both sides)  

Hardy    

[Tomawaky]

the winner will play juggler who beat dorbel

[Hardy_whv]

Playoff final

juggler vs. Hardy_whv

is scheduled for

Sunday, 6th August, 13:00 Central European Summer Time (= 11:00 GMT).

Any supporters are welcome.


Hardy    

[Tomawaky]

:ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster: Master of session 27 is juggler  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:

Big congrats to Peter Schneider (alias juggler @ Fibs) who win his third victory in the FLG.

You can visit the Hall of Fame here

And his personnal homepage here

:ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  :ohmaster:  

[socksey]

WTG, juggler!  ))  Congrats and best wishes from one of your fans.  

socksey



"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." - Henry Ford

[Tomawaky]

Hello,

Don't forget to sign (http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/signin.php) for the Fall's FLGTY !

But as I can see in the last session, bracket is not running very quickly. I am here to give you the oportunity to run tournament in a friendly way but not to remember you to play. It would take too much work.
So it is up to you to plan your match or notice me when you get no response from your opponnent or if the bracket seems not working properly.

Thanks in advance

[Tomawaky]

You can see the comptete bracket by clicking under
http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/flgty/flgty.php?bracket=Fall&Year=2006

[Tomawaky]

Swiss 2006 - Round 6

1 yes,            [4]       :     BushSucks,  [5] 
2 magic_one,   [3.5]     :     tansley,    [4] 
3 CornCob,      [3]       :     adrian,     [3] 
4 JFM,            [3]       :     Sixta_II,   [3] 
5 Mano,          [3]       :     moyang,     [3] 
6 andreas_graf,[2.5]     :     mikeyg,     [2] 
7 juggler,         [2]       :     Hardy_whv,  [2] 
8 Tomawaky,    [2]       :     chopos,     [1] 
9 Gusssss,       [1]       :     spartiati,  [1] 
10 Forester,      [.5]     1:0    BYE             

[Tomawaky]

Session 29 has open and will end on the 29th of december

Play-off for Session 28 are below :

lewscannon vs zyxtcba
michaelsw vs Backwoods

Tomawaky

[Tomawaky]

The final of the 2006 swiss tournament will be played between BushSucks & tansley.
This will be the best of a two 13pts matches (and a last 15Pts Match if necessary).

Complete results here


Congrats to both players

Tomawaky

[Tomawaky]

Backwoods who beat in final zyxtcba 13-6

Backwoods is the second players with third master trophys

[socksey]

Congrats, Backwood

socksey



"This is no longer a slum neighborhood. I haven't heard of a Cubs fan being shot in a long time." - Anonymous Wrigley Field Neighbor, Chicago, Illinois

[spielberg]

Congratulations BW, (unlucky zyx / MrT),

I particularly liked the way you saved your trademark 5,5 to the last roll of the match when it was completely unnecessary - a fair use of dicebot!

Steve / spielberg

[Tomawaky]

Session 30 has open and will end on the 25th of february

Play-off for Session 29 are below :

mano vs houtx
BushSucks vs jennings

Tomawaky

[Tomawaky]

All in the title
mano vs hout, Friday 5 january 2007 18h00 GMT

[Tomawaky]

I was not sure to create one more when I see that other do not come to the end.
Please for those who sign, be sure to make your best effort to finish it.

[garykay]

is it too late to sign up?

[Tomawaky]

No. Still not open. I will accept entry until 15 january

[Tomawaky]

mano vs BushSucks

[socksey]

What?  Didn't happen yet?  Rescheduled?  What?

socksey



"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball

[Tomawaky]

Sorry nothing plan as I know

[Tomawaky]

Winter FLGTY Tourney has been started

[Tomawaky]

Here is Bago standing average for player with more than 9 participations for the year 2006

Zorba         3.6333   30
Schigolch    3.2903   31
socksey      3.0690   29
Anterico      2.9412  17
sidie           2.9375  16
ibt             2.8000   10
DirtyHarryII 2.7000   10
don           2.6667   12
inim           2.6667   15
KDP           2.6000   10
cis             2.5882   17
sita           2.5833   24
Sequit        2.5625   16
michaelsw   2.5455   22
Backwoods  2.5333   30
samirah       2.5263   19
Tomawaky   2.5000   18
Mort           2.4706   17
LuckyDice    2.4405   84
stog           2.3750   16
erdbeere     2.3333   30
krautlover    2.2857   14
juanz          2.2830   53
Anakin        2.2727   33
ozgit          2.2000   10
sarah         2.2000   20
elisee         2.1690   71
Paul_William 2.1364   44
cesarguimaraes 2.1053   19
diane          2.0769   39

[Tomawaky]

Here is Bago standing average for Country with more than 30 participations for the year 2006

netherlands     2.8302   53
switzerland     2.4649   114
australia         2.4035   57
finland           2.4000   40
germany        2.2857   350
spain            2.2727   55
usa              2.2704   196
france          2.1750   40
greatbritain   2.0498   281
bulgaria        1.8821    195
newzealand   1.5455   66

[socksey]

Is the second number the total number of participation for player and country?   

socksey



Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie

[Tomawaky]

Is the second number the total number of participation for player and country?   

Yes

[Tomawaky]

All details are on this page.

[Tomawaky]

Hi Fibsters,

for those who want to sign in the Swiss tournament for 2007.
Use this link

[Tomawaky]

The Swiss tourney has begun, check your opponent here

Swiss page

[Tomawaky]

I am on vacation for the next week and won't be able to close the league session and open the next one before the 5th of march.

[socksey]

Glad to hear it!     I'm still trying to arrange the rest of my matches. 

socksey



If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers

[stiefnu]

Sorry to sound like a grumpy old git (well, if the cap fits...) but rules are rules.  The session was always intended to end at midnight on 25th February, so that's when it should officially finish.  Tomawaky being on holiday (hope you're having a cracking good time!) does not stop the positions being recorded, for him to ratify on his return.  If anyone drops into the dreaded relegation zone in the following week (especially me!), they should not be relegated, IMHO.

stiefnu

[socksey]

I think Tomawaky has let the rule slide before.  Why not now, especially since he won't be available to officially end the session?  What say you, Tomawaky? 

socksey



"A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life." - Celia Luce

[Tomawaky]

I do always support play.
If some more matches have be done during this week. It's great.

[Tomawaky]

Session 31 has open and will end on the 4th of may.

Play-off for Session 30 are below :
magic_one vs dorbel
samirah vs Peggels

[stiefnu]

"Session 31 has open and will end on the 4th of May."  Or maybe on some other date...

[Tomawaky]

"Session 31 has open and will end on the 4th of May."  Or maybe on some other date...

Very funny  Thanks

... Or maybe never 
As I have a surgery in end of march, you will not maybe see me anymore with little chance.

[stiefnu]

... Or maybe never 
As I have a surgery in end of march, you will not maybe see me anymore with little chance.
[/quote]

A timely reminder that there is a life beyond FIBS, and more important things in life than Backgammon.  Good luck with the operation and we will all hope to see you back here, soon afterward!

[Tomawaky]

thanks you 

[Tomawaky]

Sorry I miss the Swiss Calendar. I have just made the update now, you can play.

Swiss page

[Tomawaky]

Tuesday BAGO Session is now 1 hour earlier, DON'T MISS IT !
BAGO Page

[Gusssss]

Tuesday BAGO Session is now 1 hour earlier, DON'T MISS IT !
BAGO Page

Good to see you back on top form Tomawaky  (and in one piece  )

[Tomawaky]

Thank Gusss 
In one piece, yes.
Need crutches to walk for the moment
But to play backgammon is enough for the moment

[Tomawaky]

Don't miss it !

On Tursday, 12 of april, 19:00 GMT (Fibs Time) The master final between samirah and dorbel will be held at Fibs.

12 april - 19h00GMT - samirah vs dorbel - MASTER LEAGUE FINAL

[Tomawaky]

Congrats 

[Tomawaky]

Welcome back Kari in competition.

Congrats as you win Bago and F3 of april 2007 

[Tomawaky]

Session 32 has open and will end on the 29th of july. (The 2 summer's sessions are 3 month long because of vacation)

Play-off for Session 31 are below :

gusssss vs BushSucks
lewscannon vs Slipshod

PAY ATTENTION for MASTER division.
Because of the suggestion of some players and because all of the players were agreed to increase the length's match, I decided that all the matchs that would be played in master's division will be set to 9 PTS LENGTH as a Test for this session.
We will decide for the next one, if we continue with 9 or take back to 7.

For All other divisions, Length match is still set to 7.

Tomawaky@Fibs

[Tomawaky]

... and because all of the players were agreed to increase the length's match, I decided that all the matchs that would be played in master's division will be set to 9 PTS LENGTH as a Test for this session.

It seems that I am wrong  So I correct this.
I would have better said that most of the players, with little exception, were agreed to increase the length's match....

Excuse me for those people. 

[Tomawaky]

The Swiss continue even if some have left  , check your opponent here

Swiss page

[Tomawaky]

Have made some change for Swiss round 3 as I miss one result.
Check the new pairment

[Tomawaky]

Still less players than ever but I keep on for the remainning players 
http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/flgty/swissfibs.htm

[Tomawaky]

Session 33 has open and will end on the 28th of october. (The 2 summer's sessions are 3 month long because of vacation)

Play-off for Session 32 are below :

mradica vs diane
Slipshod vs Rourke

PAY ATTENTION for MASTER division.
I keep the length's match to 9 pts in Master for the new session and will ask some feedback in the middle of this session.

Tomawaky@Fibs

[Tomawaky]

The Swiss continue, check your opponent for the next round

Swiss page

[adrian]

Sorry for not showing up! Please take it as a win for you, not a tie. I hope to be more around in the next Swiss season. 

[Tomawaky]

Sorry for not showing up! Please take it as a win for you, not a tie. I hope to be more around in the next Swiss season. 

Thanks but it's a no play for both, and as I am the TD of the FLG I never ask myself for forfeit ;-)

[Tomawaky]

FLGTY Bracket have been updated with bye for match that would not have been played.
You reach the next step in this OLD tournament
Thanks to complete your match

http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/flgty/flgty.php?bracket=Summer&Year=2006

[Tomawaky]

Last round for the Swiss Tournament and qualify for the final.
Check your opponent for the next round

Swiss page

[Tomawaky]

The new session 34 start on 1st of november and will end the 28th of december.

Play-off for Session 33 are below
[table=]
------------, ----, ------------
CornCob, vs, Rourke
Paul_William, vs, Backwoods
[/table]

I have deleted the Mailing list, because of too much spam. I think the best way to keep in touch with the news is to use the "notify" function on this topic.

[Tomawaky]

Please try to finish the matches earlier rather than later, so that there are less scheduling problems. I do not ask you to play your matches, but at least to plan them soon. Thanks all for your effort.

[Tomawaky]

Hi all,

I have change the player profil to hide email information.
You can now send email directly from the webpage to your opponent.

For those who have changed their mail to avoid spam (email(at)me(dot)com, or removethis.email@removethis.me.com), you can change it to the real one to receive mail.

Remember that you can also use Fibs Message using this command (message Tomawaky Hello can we play our match ....)

[Tomawaky]

[Tomawaky]

 
12 first players will receive a special invitation for the FIBS League Masters in january.


http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/fmasterspts.php 

[Tomawaky]

This year the Finale of the swiss tournament will be played between the 2 players below
Backwoods vs Tomawaky

Go to the Swiss page to see all the standings

[Tomawaky]

Backwoods

Complete results here

[Tomawaky]

BushSucks and Sakis were motivated and loose only once ;-)

Sakis vs CornCob
BushSucks vs Mano


The Session is paused and as there is so many new players it will take a little time to open the new one.
There will be a new silver and two Bronze Divisions.

See you in 2008 for the first session of the year.

[mradica]

I find current FIBS ratings for 12 Masters players.
Note that session play off is not finished yet so those players can get max 8 additional pts.
It is unofficial data. For official one and not conclusive yet take a look here: http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/fmasterspts.php

This is ranking according Masters points.


  rank name            rating    Experience  Master pts

* 136 BushSucks       1850.20     7368       158
*  55 Rourke             1910.76     9154       155
* 213 Backwoods       1821.13    49418       147
* 150 dorbel             1843.31    20828       144
* 444 Slipshod          1758.48    70416       141
* 416 lewscannon     1764.39    47706       131
* 397 don                1768.09    53533       129
* 217 samirah           1819.97    38446       126
*  92 CornCob           1880.86     9543       120
* 607 Peggels           1729.39     1581       113
*  37 Sakis               1941.85     8470       109
*  89 mradica            1884.70     6281       103

And this is ranking according FIBS rating points:

*  37 Sakis               1941.85     8470
*  55 Rourke             1910.76     9154
*  89 mradica            1884.70     6281
*  92 CornCob           1880.86     9543
* 136 BushSucks       1850.20      7368
* 150 dorbel             1843.31    20828
* 213 Backwoods       1821.13    49418
* 217 samirah           1819.97    38446
* 397 don                1768.09    53533
* 416 lewscannon      1764.39     47706
* 444 Slipshod           1758.48    70416
* 607 Peggels            1729.39     1581

[Tomawaky]

This session because the number of division has changed, at the end of the session :
- The 3 players at the bottom of the Gold division will go down
- Only the 2 players at the Top of the silver will go up
- The 4 players at the bottom of the Silver will go down
- and the 3 players at the top of the Bronze go up

[don]

Hey Tomawaky.

It is not clear if the Masters' Tourney will consist of the 12 top rated FibsLeaGammon participants or if they must agree to play.  If they don't, will lower positions (13+..) be allowed in?  Personally, I'd prefer 12 active players.

Also, tho the rules state one week to complete a round, they don't say (or I didn't see) when the rounds start.

--
don

[Tomawaky]

It will be 12 active players. I am waiting for the 2 last players if they will be in or not (Sakis has already told me he would not be able to play and ask a joker for this session). Then I will wait for play-off to end before starting the masters.

[Tomawaky]

Please, use this new URL to post your play-Off matches

http://fibsleagammon.free.fr/matches.php?RefTny=Play-Off

[Tomawaky]

I decided to not post any more news of the FLG here. You can still access them from the FLG homepage.

[webrunner]

 
why not?

[Tomawaky]

That staff and no real significance. And I do not think it is necessary to discuss it here and open the debate. (You will told me)
But if somebody want to know, I can answer personnal message.

[socksey]

I'm not sure what you mean, Tomawaky, but I like having your announcements here.   

socksey



You may see her some night, silhouetted against the moon, & ask who taught her to fly. My mother, she’ll say. She was a good teacher. As far as my wings carry me, my heart always knows the way home. - Laini

[mradica]

If someone is interested to watch, there will be semifinal match play in Wednesday 20th February at 20:00 UTC
between Peggels and mradica. We will play at least two 9 pointers that evening. Possible third match will be played on Thursday same time, if it will be to late same day.

Thanks