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Due to the increase in numbers of players in recent TTTs I set this one up to be a maximum 26 player TTT - the largest ever. 24 players in 2 rounds held in the 1600+ and the 1700+ Lobbies. Each Lobby would have a Bar Tender who would keep things going by serving drinks, posting up gammons and backgammon reports, ward off non TTT players from setting up games, but offering them drinks. Meanwhile I, once having got everybody playing, would deal with the 132 reports that were coming my way. Then, the 3 top players from each Lobby and the 2 (over-worked under-played) Bar Tenders would play a Final Play-off. As long as we didn't have a draw we would know who, after now a 160 games played, who our TTT30 winner was. Registration had opened about 6 days before the TTT. The members of the TTT mailing list got to hear about it first, then a couple of days later, I posted up a notice on the Funcom Bulletin Board. Due to most of the other posts on the Bulletin Board, I, like Beds is doing for Funcom Party 2002, posted up again daily. The saddest thing about the Bulletin Board is that, I'm sure, regular players are just not visiting it these days because of the content. Funcom could sort it if they had the time and will. All they need to do is delete the offensive posts - and don't think they cannot - I run bulletin boards and it is easy to delete and block unwanted message writers. I've seen Funcom, in the distant past, delete unwanted messages on their Bulletin Board, so that at least is possible. All players have user names and passwords so they could block the offensive writers from using the Bulletin Board - or even better, just block them entirely. And if Funcom are thinking that the rudeness writers will stop of their own accord, think again: They have the BB now, it is their domain now, they know they can post anything without any impunity. How long will it be before they suss out how to post up offensive pictures to enhance their offensive words? Maybe then Funcom will stop being guilty of allowing their venue to be used for Race Hatred - one of the most abhorrent hatreds there is. Anyway, this is supposed to be TTT report, so let's get back to that ! Most players had registered at least a day before the TTT was due to start. We had some new TTT players, so I sent them an email just to make sure they knew what they would be doing. As usual we had some last minute sign-ups, so I had my usual last minute reshuffles to wade through. We had a TTT Barmaid on board, so I was reasonably confident about being able to handle a full house. About 3 registered players could not make it, but sent word to that effect, so their places were taken by the reserves. Other players had registered but were not online. Some had sent word that they were on their way, so their places were held. Others were missing and had not sent word so their places were given to those who were online and ready to play. One new idea for the Bar Tender was to post up reports of gammons and backgammons in the Lobbies. My 'puter was groaning as I tried set things up to forward reports to the Barmaid (who was now dishing out drinks and hints as to who she might be.) At last I thought I had reports going to her, but they were not. I tried again. Aggg, all players were now up and running (which was good) but it also means that scores are by then starting to flood in and I need to process them. I spoke some harsh words to my 'puter, but it didn't respond well. Meanwhile it wasn't taking players long to suss out who our BarMaid was - old valued friendships are hard to break and players soon recognized the style. I tried again, but failed to send reports to her email address. And on BigWolf made it into Funcom and we found Hunt so we had a full 12 players in the 1700+ Lobby. At one stage I thought I had 13 players in the 1600+ Lobby, but I recounted and could not find Himbo present, so there were actually 12. So we the maximum possible 24 + 1 Barmaid - so we were heading for a 7 player Final Play-off. We had various disasters along the way. My 'puter was one of them. It was croaking like an olde mans dying breath. In the 1700+ Lobby BigWolf and Hunt were way behind other players. In the 1600+ Lobby Excelent played a 3 games then vanished and Cugy played most of his/her games but then vanished as well. Bigwolf played most of his games, but crashed again so his scores we carried through and players than had not played him were awarded 1 point. Hunt then vanished having played less than 1/2 his games, so his games were not recorded and all scores against him scrubbed. In the 1600+ Lobby Cugy did a BigWolf and Excelent a Hunt. Sound complicated - well, it was! Just to make things even more interesting, some reports were wrong - straight losses reported instead of gammons. One of these games was a Grant game and, once it was established that the game had in fact been a gammon, put him in the top 3 in the 1700+ Room. Grant, a long term TTT player and tipped (by me) as a future winner was through to the Final. Fiona did her best ever and gained a place as did, having won a backgammon and gammon, K_pax. In the 1600+ Room Di-ablo and netmusen were through with mecpyp and Peace_Love both on 9 points each. These two needed to play a play-off to see who would go through. They started but as they did so, Di-albo had to drop out of the TTT, so another Final Play-off place became available, so both mecpyp and Peace_Love went through. Complicated ? - Yup, I told you it was ! TRIC TRAC TOURNO 30 1700+ LOBBY SCORECARD
TRIC TRAC TOURNO 30
But The Barmaid had by now long finished
serving drinks and just about all players had sussed that it
was in fact Cassie25 - even though Cassie has not been online
in Funcom for a good while now, such is her presence and
popularity that players often ask if the Bar Tender is Cassie.
This week it was. But this TTT was taking ages, she never got
those reports she should have done and having said her
goodbyes moved on to another Pub. I tried to raise her, but
the hour was late and she was probably deep in a money game or
deep tucked up in bed, so she was not present for our Final
Play-off. So we had a 6 player (15 games) Final Play-off
TTT.
15 of the 15 games are now posted.
Congratulations
to
Netmusen
wins a Backpacker
Travel Towel.
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