• Add wager for match rooms
  
  
• Snooker foul and miss was not being called for jump or ball off table
  
  
• Add 5 frame bowlliards
  
  
• Allow all game types on all tables, expect billiards on pocket tables and pocket games on billiard table
  
  
• No stats for games played on table not standard for the game, for example a pool game on a snooker table will not count in stats
  
  
• Changed rating computation. There was a bug where certain games were allowing players to get high ratings by playing mostly lower ranked players, and some the low ranked players were becoming even lower. All players with game ratings above 2500 have also been dropped to 2500 as the system was not designed to have ratings over 3000 and that should prevent that from happening. All players with game ratings under 1000 have been raised to 1000. Ratings equilibrium will happen over time, they would have gone this way but helping it along to keep everything running smoothly and fair.

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The 14:1 World Championship is starting on Wednesday December 14th and is open to all players. This is a non-handicapped NRT tournament. Each winners round has a 2 week deadline and losers rounds have a 10 day deadline. Winner matches are 200 points and losers 150 points with a single final to 300 points. Sign up now for this exciting event:
http://vponline.celeris.com/tournament/view/24122

A separate handicapped division is also being run at the same time. Entry is restricted to A player and lower. Sign up for that here:
http://vponline.celeris.com/tournament/view/24202

http://vponline.celeris.com/news/post/54

We are implementing changes for major tournaments such as World Championships. All major tournament have been run as Non Real Time (NRT) tournaments where matches must be scheduled with opponents and played by a deadline date. We are going to continue with NRT for majors, but are making some changes based on feedback from players and observed issues in play and scheduling. Here is the down low on changes:

- The time to play is going to be increased for both winners and losers side. The Snooker WC used 6 days on the winners side and 3 on the losers. We felt neither was enough time. The next major will use at least 10 days on the winners and 7 days on the loser side.

- Some matches were played after the deadline and we accepted those results because players were not given enough time to play. Our plan is to be much less accepting of late matches because it is unfair to players participating in the next round as their scheduling time is diminished.

- There was a software issue that could cause players to not advance properly in the tournament. We saw this in the first round of Snooker WC and fixed that immediately and it worked fine the rest of the tournament.

- We have increased capability to fix match issues after the fact. Based upon our experiences we feel that was necessary in case something does happen. There is still a possibility of an unexpected outcome with poor connections that may happens once and a while. We may also change matches based upon scheduling disputes, though any change would have to be made shortly after the result. Players need to contact the Tournament Director (TD) and Support ASAP if there are any issues with the result.

The next tournament scheduled is going to be the World 14:1 Championship. If you have any request for match lengths (winners and losers side) or any other format ideas, please comment below.

NRT Primer

Non Real Time Tournaments (NRT) do not play matches back to back and are used for larger tournaments. Matches are played at a date/time agreed upon by the players. Player schedule matches by going to the tournament page on vponline.celeris.com and clicking the match schedule icon. They then propose 2-3 date/times that they can play. The match opponent receives the proposal via website messaging and also email if turned on in the player account. The opponent either accepts a date or chooses other date/times to play and sends it back. There is a cutoff time for playing each round of a NRT tournament. Matches not scheduled by the deadline will be decided automatically by the server based on player scheduling communication. If neither players scheduled, then it is a coin flip. A TD may get involved if necessary.

http://vponline.celeris.com/news/post/53

The final of the Snooker World Championship came down to two of the very best players in the field, daombre and Albinario with daombre winning 10 to 6 in a hard fought battle. After losing his first match by forfeit daombre went all the way though the losers bracket to meet Albinario in the final. See the Snooker World Championship brackets:
http://vponline.celeris.com/tournament/brackets?id=20310

http://vponline.celeris.com/news/post/52

Virtual Pool 4 World Snooker Championships are starting on September 9th at GMT 04:00. There are 2 divisions, Open and Handicapped. The Open division is open to all players and there are no handicaps given. The Handicapped division is for players from Rookie to A Player skill levels and the handicaps are given points for each frame. Both tournaments are double elimination brackets.


Details of the Open division World Snooker Championship:
http://vponline.celeris.com/tournament/view?id=20310

Details of the Handicapped division World Snooker Championship:
http://vponline.celeris.com/tournament/view/20311

The tournaments are being played Not Real Time (NRT). Players have 6 days to play each round ikn the winners side and 3 days in the losers side. Matches are scheduled using the NRT Match Scheduler to negotiate the play time with your opponent.
This is easy to do, click here to see a short video tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czJscRgb9nA

You can also get help from and TD (red in lobby, click on the name in the Player List and it shows Tournament Director on the popup).

The tournaments are paying out significant money and the Open division has a large ranking point bonus and rating bump.