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 talk to jm468 or jzimmie99, 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