Yahoo
Instant Messenger
.....is a
REQUIREMENT for hosting tournaments. If you do not have it
please download and install asap. If
you need assistance please ask.
Tourneys:
Do NOT hold up
your tourney for the previous tourney to finish...if you are
running two (2) in a row and running late.....please ask another
TD, HTD or Admin to either start your next tourney or watch the
tables for you so you can start next tourney. If no other
TD is able to assist you then feel free to push the starting
time back 15 minutes.
Please make
all tourneys seeded by either registration number
or random seeding......
When another TD
is hosting a tourney please try not to assist too much with
pairings as this can get rather confusing in the lobby for all
involved. However, if you need help please feel free to
ask another TD for assistance.
If you see
another TD may need help please IM them and offer suggestions or
assistance but never, under any circumstances, should another TD
take over in the lobby or in a game. Doing so is
disrespectful for the TD hosting and can make that TD appear
incapable in the eyes of the members.
Please start your
tourney by 10 minutes after start time.....however, also please
use your best judgment with this as there are, at times,
extenuating circumstances.
Do not start a
tourney until auto teams are even.....
Be in the room no
less than 45 minutes prior to start time to begin advertising
your tourney and assisting with pairing up teams. Please
do not begin advertising for your tour more than one hour prior
to start time.
If you make a
tourney and find you can not be there...please try to find someone to
cover for you ...or see if you can temporarily switch times with
another TD. Please try to allow enough time to fill this
spot for you.
Do NOT, under any circumstances,
move a tourney once a player has registered into it. If
you can not run it due to not enough players then DELETE
it. DO NOT just move it. It must be deleted.
If you call a pairing and the table is not
made.....call the pairing a second time using wording such as:
(TEAM 1 INVITE TEAM 2 AND ME.....2ND CALL....failure to make
will result in your opponents making the table and choice of
seats.) Please give a reasonable length of time for tables
to be made. If the lobby is overly congested it's possible
the first calling went unseen.
Please call all of round 1 games and get them
started then immediately call those round 2 games that can be
played. We don't want members sitting and waiting for
their game if they can be playing.
Effective: June 24, 2009
1 VS 1'S Tourneys:
1 vs 1 tourneys may be hosted on odd hours only
with the exception of one handed roulettes which may be hosted
anytime. Please make sure you are knowledgeable in running
1 vs 1's as the pairings can be confusing and must be called
correctly. For assistance we have a series of "training"
pages and images for you in the TD Center. If you aren't
comfortable hosting 1 vs 1's then please don't attempt to host
them.
1 vs 1's must be on odd hours only however, there
is no time restrictions after
midnight.
Double Elimination
Tournaments:
A new table MUST be made for every
game. On occasion the finals game in a double elimination
tour will require a second game to determine the
winner....always have a new table made for the second
game.
MIA players: If a team times out on their
first game (10 minutes for one or the other player to return)
they are dq'd from that game however, they may play their second
or bottom bracket game provided they are in the lobby at the
time that second game is called... they will be given 2 minutes
and must be at the table and ready to play or they are dq'd from
the remainder of the tourney.
All double elimination tours will be
6/20/500.
Swiss Tournaments:
Swiss tournaments will be
8/30/500
Tourney Rules:
Format for our tourneys is: The
specific game you are playing rules should be on the main
tourney page (Customize Tourney Layout) and the League Specific
Rules for all Tourneys on the tourney rules page (Customize
Tourney Rules) ..copy and paste codes can be found in the TD
Help Center. If you need assistance please
ask.
Games:
We ask that the 12 PM, 4 PM, 8 PM and 10 PM
always be regular spades (which does NOT include
suicide).....beyond that you are free to make your tours whatever
games you like.
The admin team encourages the use of odd
hours for the more weird and off the wall
games.
Please keep your game choice limited to the
games you find in our TD Help Center where you will find all the
copy and paste codes for them.
If you'd like to use another
game.....please submit the game in detail to any of the admins
via email for approval.
When you call a game for time .... try to
give at least a few minutes warning....such as: 10 minutes left
or "you have 5 minutes left on game timer.". When game
time is up....inform them of this and allow them to finish the
hand. A game is NEVER
called during the middle of a hand.....it's always played
out.
A hand begins when the first bid is on the
table.
Misbids......game is over at the called
number of hands/ game time/ or 500 points or when yahoo ends the
game.........THEN you access the misbid (s) to determine the
winner.
Tour Times:
Even hour tours: 10 am, 12 pm, 2 pm,
4 pm, 6 pm, 8 pm and 10 pm. Please make these tours 2 vs 2
and no less than 10 hands.
If, for some reason your tourney gets
started 30 minutes or more late, you, as the TD, do have the
authority to change the hands to 6 as long as it is announced
BEFORE the tourney begins and is carried through the entire
tourney. This would make the tour little shorter in time
and closer to finishing in time for the next.
Odd hour tours: 9 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 3
pm, 5 pm, 7 pm, 9 pm and 11 pm and MUST be 5 hands or
less. We really prefer the even hour tours are filled
first and then odd hour tours after that.
Making Tours and requesting time
slots:
We ask that you take at least one regular
tour time slot per week, if at all possible. Please
contact the TD Manager about getting your name on the master
schedule shown near the bottom of our main league page on the
"Tournaments Tab".
If you have a regular time slot we ask that
you make your tourney at least 3-7 days in advance. Please
do not take another TD's reserved time slot more than 48 hours
in advance. Check the master schedule on the tournaments
tab page for reserved time slots.
Any open tourney slots are
free for any TD to make a tour up to 48 hours prior.
Any time slot not reserved to
another td can be taken up to 7 days in advance. Again,
check the main page for reserved time
slots.
Boxing:
As a TD, you do
have the authority to box if needed.....please get a screen shot
for backup (a picture is worth a thousand words) and contact an
admin asap to do the actual box for you.
Please
click here for our boxing procedure and league
statement. The TD's name will appear along with the admin
doing the boxing.
TD
Policy:
We do have
a very detailed TD Policy
and follow it to the letter......please make sure you are
familiar with it so you don't lose your TD status. If you
have any questions or requests please contact our TD
Manager......which you can find listed on the main league page
under "Who Do I Contact..
TD Email
Address:
Please keep your
email current as much information will be passed on to you in
this way.
Tourney Page
Images:
It is NOT a
requirement that you decorate your tourney pages!
Our Admin team
does not wish to resort to "censoring" images the TD uses for
decorating tourney pages. Please use good judgment in your
choice of images as some may be offended. If this becomes
a problem we will address it with the individual TD.
General rule of
thumb: No nudity
You can find many
"pre-made tourneys" at my site www.ladyjm.com
Other:
You.....as an
Admin, HTD or TD need to know our League Specific Rules.
Please make yourself familiar with them. They can be found
on the main league page under the LADDER Section: or
follow this link-->
League Rules