upcoming championships

einstein.ch.12.2.2 is finished so einstein might be close to getting around.

Go9 is in score counting.

Amazons has at most 4 moves left.

I hope four in a row is soon!

You can cekc for yourself to see that there are many games in many sections left. http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/games/championship.jsp?trnid=fir.ch.29.1.1

thank you for the link :)

Go 9: one game running.

It seems desirable to me that this game is ended soon, in one or the other way.

I've noticed quite a large disparity in playing speeds. In the Ewn rounds i'm playing, four players complete their first-to-3 matches in just a few days, while one player hasn't even started, and will probably drag it out at one move every three days for the duration.

Would it make sense to speed up the time control for the last games of a tournament? For example, have a pace of two days per move in the middle, and one day per move near the end? That would give the fast players a slight bonus, and more importantly, would give a nudge to the long tail-enders. A policy like that might only affect the chronically slow participants, and might see monthly championships end in a few months instead of nine.

Thoughts?

That Go9 game is still going. I suppose Bill will run out of legal moves eventually. There are also one game left in each of Breakthrough and Street Soccer.

I now see 5 games in Breakthrough, all in the same section. Did I miss them before? Were games backtracked for some reason?

I think there was a site crash earlier this year but recovery was quite fast and games weren't backtracked.

hex19 has finished

It really sucks that the new championship won't start because players like Bill refuse to surrender a battle that no one would say that he has a chance in. Especially because sometimes he doesn't even seem to be trying to win.

But I guess he is entitled to play his moves, somehow it is more a criticism of Go endgame than of Bill.

Go-9 27th championship started.

Dvonn has finished.

TwixtPP has finished.

dots and boxes started

No offence Thnikkaman, ypercube et al., but can someone tell me the point of posting that a championship has started? Surely those signed up for it will notice, and those not signed up for it can not do anything about it. If someone wonders when the last championship started, it is easy to find out. On the other hand, knowing that the last round finished and that the new one will start shortly is useful for those not signed up if they feel like getting ~8 new matches in that particular game, and those already signed up for it get a last chance to sign off if they do not wish to play the next round.

I guess it is useful for spectators. :-)

Apologies if anything bad happens on this thread or elsewhere - today I'm coding a module for RoRoRo to automatically announce the start and end of each championship here. (And an "only one group remains" message too.)

Initially I'll set him up so that there are no posts to the forum, to check that everything seems to work, but once I enable posting, he might hit something I wasn't able to test.

Should I enable announcements for all game types?

Note, currently it doesn't cope with "cv" variants, but copes with all sizes of go, for example (as they are "ch"s not "cv"s).

Thank you for yet another RoRoRo service, FatPhil (and for all the other services). These kind of third-party contributions make LG a better place. I don't think you're very fat, either. :)

@Tasmanian: I posted the start of a championship, only because I thought that it started earlier than expected.

Twixt PP championship 31 has started

OK, that's the least useful feature working correctly! I might disable that one. At least I'll add a URL if I do keep it.

One of these should turn into a "has ended" message some time soon:

Following fir.ch.29, state=0:0,0:0,x,0,0:0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0

Following gwg.ch.24, state=x:0,0:0,0,0,0

Following oski.ch.8, state=x:0,0:0,0,0

Following loa.ch.19, state=0:x,0:0,0,0,0:0,0

Nothing's right next to a "only one more group remains" message, apart from this:

Following gmk.ch.19, state=x:x,x:0,0,0,0:0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0:0,0,0,0,0,0,0

There's no peeking inside the last group to see how many games remain at the moment, however that can be added in easily if desired. You, the readers, may decide what you want to see; I've never really cared too much, they start when they start...

OSKI championship 8 has finished! Congratulations Nagy Fathy!

For me, it is interesting to get an advance notice of when the next championship starts because I enter depending on how many other games I play at the moment. So, knowing one group or one game remains would let me decide if I want to participate in the next championship, or not.

One game remaining would give a better estimate to the next start than one group remaining.

Lines Of Action championship 19 has finished!

Golem Word Game championship 24 has finished!

Four in a row championship 29 is down to 1 remaining game .

mungo: my attempt to do that clearly has bugs - sorry.

Lines of Action championship 19 has *NOT* finished (1 group, 2 games)
GWG championship 24 has *NOT* finished (1 group, 2 games)
Four in a row is indeed in the above state.

Four in a row is indeed in the above state.

Yes, but the link is not to the ongoing game. ;-)

Assuming I fixed his s///'s and splits, here's a list of what he currently will notify on:
\* When a new championship has started
\* When a championship gets down to its last group, it will tell you how many games remain
\* If the last group had more than 1 remaining game, then additionally, when it's gets down to just a single game
\* When the championship finishes

@TD - thanks for bug report, should be now fixed.

Connect6 is down to one game, and even though one should generally not comment on ongoing games, I think it is safe to say that this one is almost finished.

Connect6 championship 12 is down to 1 remaining game .

OSKI championship 9 has started

hex championship 28 is down to 1 remaining group with 2 games .

Connect6 championship 12 has finished!

Connect6 championship 13 has started

Is this still due to testing or did the champ 13 start withing 24 hours after the end of champ 12. This would be an important change in the policy. I liked the week in between better... gives you the chance to choose to sign in or to quit at the moment of the championship starts.

http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/tournament/tournament.jsp?trnid=connect6.ch.12.3.1
Tournament:connect6.ch.12.3.1
Start date:2012-01-01 17:28
Finish date:2012-04-14 08:56

and 23 hours later:
Tournament:connect6.ch.13.1.1
Start date:2012-04-15 10:04

Hjallti: You can decide not to play in the next championship while the current one is playing and still play it to the end.

Furthermore; you are probably often not the very last person to play a game in the championship, so you should have time enough to decide.

maybe the policy was always the same: start on the next sunday after the last tournament was finished!?

@Mirko: I'm pretty sure that is not the case. I have been registered here since 2003, and at times I have payed close attention to when the championships end and start. It was always one week in the past (except when server problems caused a longer time, and the few cases when Richard started a new championship "manually" because one unbelievably slow match was holding back the finish), and in all the most recent ones I have seen, it has been just a day or so.

Maybe 1-3 days recently; I haven't paid that close attention recently, but definitely shorter than one week in all recent ones I have seen.

While the robomatic announcements work, we should work out the pattern pretty soon...

I kind of like the 'bare' lay-out :)

Do you mean of RoRoRo's tournament predictions?
I'm going to try to add some mark-up to those to make them more readable, as they're too bare for my taste currently.

Yes indeed, I like the minimalistic display better than the big yellow boards :)

What I usually like less is my position in it, regardless of the display ;-)