The Single Sitting Challenges work best when multiple contestants can play simultaneously.

The Single Sitting Challenges will run regularly and exclusively once a week starting and ending 30 hours on Saturdays.

The Prime Time for these competitions is once a week from 7 am GMT on Saturday running until 1 pm GMT on Sunday. (11 pm PST Friday running until 5 am PST Sunday). (9 pm EST Friday until 2 am EST Sunday).  In a nutshell, all day Saturday.

The images in the background make it hard for me to see.  I found a setting in the dashboard to disable the images by choosing a solid color for the background instead.

The link to the dashboard for this setting is: https://www.simplybg.com/dashboard/settings-site

From there, select a color and the background images will no longer appear.

I prefer the orientation of my board to have the Home board in the top-left corner.
Therefore, I have set my preference using the Dashboard Preferences setting page.



Link:
https://www.simplybg.com/dashboard/settings-preferences

There are a variety of ways of scoring in the Single Sitting Challenges.

The scoreboard of all participants is maintained annually.

You score points by simply winning competitions. Win more points for winning consecutively. Points are even awarded for just participating.  There are a variety of scoring factors.

Come and participate, Take a Seat, and wait for an opponent to challenge you.

If you have an active seat, and you leave the competition page, the site will attempt to alert you when a contender comes along.

Current scoreboard:

Is there a way to make the backgammon board fit the screen,

so it is at least as big as an IPAD or an HP?

The Single Sitting backgammon challenges begin and end immediately in one sitting.

These challenges are governed by matches enabled with timers to ensure immediate start and finish.

There are four competitions, a 1 point, 3 point, 5 point, and a 7 point challenge.

A custom scoring system is used for these competitions. Scores are based on your participation and ability to dominate with wins.

The scoring system for these challenges is designed so the best "all-around player" of the four challenges will be the end-of-year winner.

So if someone only plays 2 of the 4 challenges throughout the year, the player who played all of them successfully will be the winner.


See the annual scoreboard is maintained  here,  tallying the points of all participants.

The Raptor League season begins every July 1st.  

View the PDF handbook for 2024 here:  2024 Raptor League Handbook

There are several ways to invite an opponent to play a match with the timer enabled.

Be sure to review the Timers Documentation Page  for complete details on the play timers.

All matches are initiated by either a direct "invite" to an opponent or an "offer" to play a match in which the opponent would "take".

No matter which method you choose, all matches are created using the match-specifications tool.  To offer a match with timer, you enable the timer feature in your "invite" or in your "offer".

Follow these steps to create an "invite" that is saved as a "token" that can be used many times to create the same match specifications.

1) Go to the Dashboard, the "Invites Token Manager " page to create an invite token with timer enabled, this link: dashboard invites

2) Use the A:"Create a New Token" button to open the match-specification tool. Be sure to select B:"Play Timer:" option, relaxed, fast, or rapid.

3) Enable your new match invite offer to show in your list of offers in the "Ready To Play" tool of the Openplay Parlour  by C:clicking on the circle-up-arrow icon.

Steps 2 and 3,  follow A:, B:, C: ...



Once your Invite Token is created, whenever you use the "Ready To Play" button, this token with the timer enabled match will be in your list for opponents to take you upon your offer to play.

The ELOs at SimplyBG are currently undergoing reengineering. These changes are not changes to the algorithm in any way. What is happening mostly is the additional support to ELOs for increased granularity based on both player and match types being played.

We have always supported ELO ratings on matches as described on this page:
https://www.simplybg.com/features.html

Attached see recent chatter from the chat board in the Openplay Parlour  related to ELO discussion.

Please feel free to comment on this post.  You're welcome to subscribe to it, as doing so will send you notices whenever updates are made.

Update May-01-2023:
The Player stats showing ELOs has been updated to show ALL your ELOs and a bar-configuration-tool to graph 4 ELOs at a time.
See: https://www.simplybg.com/dashboard/playstats/


Update May-05-2023:
The presentation of the ELOs for players is currently being worked on. In the coming days and weeks, you will be able to view all ELOs for any player.


Hank

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Hi,
anybody else missing that?
Whenever there's a change on said page it would be nice to have a sound playing.

Cheers, /T