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Hi,

This has been fixed. Sorry for the fixing delay but - believe it or not - this was very difficult to simulate tournaments and reproduce this issue. Now we are much better equipped and manage to fix the bug.

Hello Greg,


Following the email I just received.
I wanted to thank you for the effort you made to resolve the problem of hive tournaments aborted.
I think a new tournament will start very soon.

Thank you very much and very good year 2016.
Very good year too, at the Hive players.

Not sure where else to put this one! I'd have put it in the Backgammon group but that doesn't seem to be possible. So...

At present the tie-breaker in BG tournaments is the net superiority in men removed in all games played. This is actually an inaccurate and unfair rule, because if I am miles ahead in my game (which often happens in BG) my opponent is likely to concede before I've removed hardly a single piece. In that case the tie-break score for that game would be zero (a case in point is game #20146992 in the current "Go home round robin" where thothom trounced me and I conceded with him having 6 off the board - so he gets only 6 points and I come away much better off than I deserved!) I doubt whether there is a valid way of using this stat to break ties. The ELO-based system used in Can't Stop seems more suitable.