Pocket-Monkey(tm) Discussion Forum

[Home] | [News & Announcements] | Tournament Draws[Forum Rules] [Login]

Tournament Draws

Thread #1659 - Messages: 1   (some may be hidden) **This thread is closed** 
 Tournament Draws Message #16439    Replies: 0
posted by T.J. (T.J. Crowder) on 04/13 at 07:19
Hi folks,

I noticed recently that I never mentioned a change we made, oh, must have been mid summer last year. It wasn't a big change, but I was surprised I hadn't mentioned it or updated the help. So I'm mentioning it now. :-)

The site will automatically declare a tournament a draw if three rounds are completed without any players being eliminated. This is to avoid situations like tournament 49 where the same two players kept drawing over and over again (for 27 rounds, in fact). Now, that was a Tic-Tac-Toe tourney, of course they were able to get draws, but it happens in other games too. Before this change, we had a Checkers tourney where the same players kept drawing for six rounds before we manually intervened.

Anyway, the site does it automatically now, has for months. :-) It's kicked in a couple of times since being deployed.

I've updated the tournament help page to describe this.

Enjoy your (tourney) games!
--
T.J. Crowder
First Primate
Pocket-Monkey.com

Forum software by Crowder Software
Pocket-Monkey and the Pocket-Monkey logo are trademarks of T.J. Crowder and Jock Murphy. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.