Hey everyone,

To kick off the new year, I thought that it would be kind of fun to host a tournament.  It will be a swiss system tournament.  Just post in this forum if you would like to join and be sure to post your rating.  I'll do the rest.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_system_tournament for it's layout if you are uncertain of what a Swiss Tournament is.)

Please refer back to this post on New Year's Eve to see the spreadsheet of who will be playing who.

I just want to remind everyone that this is a huge tournement so far.  We will probably have something like twelve primary rounds and then players will be ranked based on their preformance.  After this, players will be categorized by how many games they won or lost and paired with another player of the same group.  This is my first time doing a tournament, but I feel that I have a very good grasp of how this tournament should be run. 

Here is the first round. Challenge the player across form you in this chart to one unrated game. Good luck!

Selangor	Kasamajstor
sunki777	ashot19
Pawntor	Sharukin
oruam	Kingskiller
Juggalo_Mike	invertebrae
kaisawind	ketchuplover
Giovanni_	Kasparov_1989
JFercan	regnsjog
mr_inconsistent	A-Jenery
mindstormss	TomTom
recogley	bastiaan
dbalanza2	incommunicado
Darrin	chesscobedo
nickonick	thelastlink
mhbat14	RookeR
JediMaster	Derelict
thegab03	cmh0114
kilter_98	natethegreat60
munchkin	Dmytro
coco-crazy	starfox
saif	knatted
mercytononeZ	Alex_M
1red5a	meserole
wayne79	RedSoxpawn

Oh, and please name your challenges New Year's Tourney or something like that.  (Thanks knatted)

When you win/lose your game, send me a message, and I'll record it.

Well, I'm going to play, and my current rating is 1397.

I'm in,my ELO for the moment is 1333,give us a shout

sure if you're setting it up

Derelict wrote:

sure if you're setting it up

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Yeap, I'll be setting it up.  Do you want to play?  So far we have three people.

I'm in,..rating of 1300, more or less,..it fluctuates,..ha ha.

k 

Hi,

 Im new and have only 1050, but would like to play.

 Thx. Paul

hey guys, i want some too.  rating is at 1404.

 

I'll play. My rating is 1100

Geez, I don't feel like reading that whole article, but I think I understand how it is done.

I'll play - my rating is 1723.

I'll play.  1598 right now.

I'll join why not, 1700

Nice.  We got some really good competition here.  The last date to enter is on New Year's Eve.  By New Year's Day, all the games will have begun.

Akk, sorry. Count me out. I'll be on vacation.

i'll play my rating is 1020

will you take anybody with a 859 because if you are i'll play?

RedSoxpawn,

I'll take anyone.

I'm in then 842 and fluctuating, thanks this will be my first tournament type thing

id like to enter im 875 at the mo!