The Turtle Tournament

PLEASE JOIN THIS SPEED VOTE GAME TODAY!!!!

Posted by Billium248 on Saturday, Jan 16 at 6:28am

CALLING ALL DARK KNIGHTS!!!!

The time has come!!! Our most important Speed Vote Game so far has just begun!!! We are playing against the Chess Nuts who made it all the way to the finals last season!! They are big, strong, and well organized, so we need all the help we can get (the Final Championship Game last season is the ONLY game this team has EVER lost in Vote Chess so far)!! Whether or not we make it to the playoffs this time around is all dependant on this game, so we really need to win this!! The game will undoubtably last many many hours, so any time that you can give today would be greatly appreciated!!!

PLEASE join this game and help us out!!!! Thank you!!!!

http://www.chess.com/votechess/game.html?id=14500

If you're not a member of The Dark Knights already, what are you waiting for? Here's the link to the group (everyone's welcome):

http://www.chess.com/groups/home/the-dark-knights

TD: Billium248

Started on Dec 4, 2008 @ 6:11pm

Players:	100	Time Control:	14 days/move
Max Group Size:	2	Rating Range:	Open
# Advance:	1	Tie Breaks:	Yes
Points Available:	325	Games Rated:	Yes
Pairings \| Players \| Games\| Standings 67% COMPLETE!

Tournament Stats
Starting Players:	100	Completed Games:	139 (tournament is 67% complete)
Eliminated Round 1:	45 (45% of field)	Games in Round 1:	100
Eliminated Round 2:	13 (13% of field)	Games in Round 2:	52 (75% completed)
Players Withdrawn:	5 (5%)	# Timeouts:	44 (31%)
Remaining Players:	42 (42%)	Remaining Games:	13 (current round)
Average Rating:	1630	Biggest Upset:	1885 defeats 2482

Trophies:

1st Place	2nd Place	3rd Place

This tournament will probably take forever to finish, but that's ok, cuz us turtles are in no hurry. If you prefer to play at a slow and leisurely pace, then you should join The Chess Turtles:

http://www.chess.com/groups/view/the-chess-turtles

Here are the custom trophies that someone will win:

1st Place:

2nd Place:

3rd Place:

Good Luck to everyone!!

Comments:

by Billium248 - 1 month ago
Detroit Rock City (GMT-5), MI United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 11432

Uh Oh!!! I was afraid of this!!! It looks like the Custom Trophies I had set up for this tournament didn't save correctly. Super Thanks go out to Erik who finally got the staff to display the Custom Trophies on the tournament Home Pages!!! But unfortunately, now that I can see the trophies set up for each tournament, this one doesn't have anything displayed under 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place. So I think when this is all said and done, the winners will just have the normal Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals to display in their Trophy Showcase (which will of course still make any showcase look good ).

by Billium248 - 5 months ago
Detroit Rock City (GMT-5), MI United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 11432

Hooray!! We're finally into Round 2!!

That only took 10 and a half months.

Good Luck Everybody!! Have Fun!!

by DrPhil - 8 months ago
Netherlands

Member Since: Mar 2008
Member Points: 248

By the way, we'll have a large number of rounds with this setup, so December 2010 is waaay too early :p

We started with 100; only two people in each group. The first round will see 54-55 people advance 9and takes half a year). Round two: 54 people will be reduced to about 30. Round three: 15-20 still standing after that one. Round four will then be survived by 8-12 people, round five by 4-8. Round seven is the first one where we might see a winner, but it could also end up being round 8 or even 9, depending on how many advance due to splitting the points.

For the record, with 4-6 months / round, we'd be done by early 2012, give or take a year . (unless the next rounds will have more people / group, don't know if that's decided by round or all in advance)

by Billium248 - 14 months ago
Detroit Rock City (GMT-5), MI United States

Member Since: Dec 2007
Member Points: 11432

For anyone who wants to stay tuned on this tournament's progress, I've started a blog/thread for it:

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/custom-trophy-tournament