I know the holidays are upon us so these paired matches are not required to be played until the tournament officially starts on 1-5-2011. You can start scheduling your game with your opponent now if you so wish. However, please make sure the game is scheduled on or after 1-5-2011. I will post the pairings here on the MOT bulletin board either weekly or bi-weekly, depending on how much time it takes to complete the round. I will also be messaging a pairing notice to each of the matched players. The players will then coordinate with one another to set a game time that is suitable to both parties. Please message me the scheduled game date/time so I can post it for the benefit of any observers. You will have 14 days from 1-5-11 to schedule your first match. Failure to schedule a game or respond to your opponent within 14 days will result in a forfeit. Please notify me if you are having diffuculties in contacting or arranging a date/time with your opponent. Please base your game time upon UTC time. You can convert your local time to UTC by highlighting the Date/time on the upper righthand side of the Caissa applet. The matched game will be played live and in the 30/30 time format with random colors. The scoring shall be based on a correspondence tournament crosstable with each player receiving 1 point for each opponent defeated or 1/2 point for a draw. In the event of a tie score the players with the two highest scores will play a sudden-death match. Please post any questions or comments on the MOT BB or message me. Thank you to all the participants and good luck. Hopefully, I can put these tourney's together on a monthly or bi-monthly basis(Based on the success of this one.) Perhaps the next tournament can be based upon a particular opening as well.
 
* One player in the Intermediate class is required to have one Bye-week during the tournament.
 
Master Class (2000+)
 
1. Gladiator(2331) vs. yaman(2274)
2. jaume1959(2233) vs. BrandonE(2757)
3. power(2165) - LongAgo(2001)
 
Intermediate Class (1999-1600)
 
1. EELDROP(1646) vs. Kastelka(1788)
2. Igrupido(1600) vs. Comrade(1600)
3. Lekarka(1749) - Bye-week*
 
Novice Class (1599-0)
 
1. Grim(1415) vs. Kingsfull(1473)
2. Cuch(1402) vs. thornydevil(1350)
3. ehoppy(1443) vs. Spud(1418)
 

to my fellow novices and self confessed patzers. Don't be lulled into over confidence when you notice that I am ranked the lowest. This is only a result of me exclusively playing corr games since becoming a member. I am a good 10 or 15 points better than the 1350 against my name.

Whereas I am probably 10-20 points worse ... just got lucky in a couple of online games, recently. :)
 
Oh, by the way, lest we forget one of the more important points in Brandon's post:
 
"The matched game will be played live and in the 30/30 time format with random colors."

 
Please explain what does a bye-week mean in your schedule? I don't speak english fluently and I don't understand the meaning of this.
Lekarka

Now I got you. It's OK with me but if I manage to find somebody as intermediate I would notify you instantly.
Lekarka

Tournament has begun. You have 14 days from today to contact your paired opponent and schedule your live 30/30 game.
 
LIVE GAME PAIRINGS AND SCHEDULED GAME TIMES
 
 
Master Class (2000+)

1. Gladiator(2331) vs. yaman(2274) 1/05 at 6pm EST 23:00 UTC
2. jaume1959(2233) vs. BrandonE(2757) 1/08 4pm EST 21:00 UTC
3. power(2165) - LongAgo(2001)

Intermediate Class (1999-1600)

1. EELDROP(1646) vs. Kastelka(1788)
2. Igrupido(1600) vs. Comrade(1600) 1/08 10am EST 15:00 UTC
3. Lekarka(1749) - Bye-week*

Novice Class (1599-0)

1. Grim(1415) vs. Kingsfull(1473) 1/06 at 9pm EST 1:00 UTC
2. Cuch(1402) vs. thornydevil(1350)
3. ehoppy(1443) vs. Spud(1418)

Scheduled tournament game: Sunday January 9, 2011 at 18:00 GMT LongAgo vs Power

 
Just to clarify ... this is scheduled for 9 p.m. Eastern (per our e-mails) not 8 p.m. Eastern.
 
Thanks,
 
-J

Grim and I (kingsfull) played to a hard fought draw.

Comrade and I will be playing on Saturday 1/8 at 10am EST.

 
Hopefully, no one was actually watching that debacle. :)

updated 1-07 Check for scheduled game times

Comrade and I also fought to a draw. We ended with just one queen each!
 

Power never showed (second time). I played Gladiator and he won.
 
LongAgo

Try one more time to re-schedule the game. If a 3rd no show or no answer to your correspondence in 48hrs, I will award you a win by forfeit. I will post the standings for your game with Gladiator. Thanks.