This update allows us to have 2 alternative tournament types.

Friendly Tournaments
For those that wish to play tournament just for fun, and for newbies in an event who wish to gain tournament practice. No tournament win is achieved, no tournapoints can be won, and no ranking changes occur. Other achievements like centuries, wins and losses are still recorded. Failure to show still incurs a loss but no ranking change. In essence similar to friendly games.

This was suggested by eemad (I think) on the TournaPoints feedback.

Micro Tournaments
A tournament which is aimed to take 20-25 minutes including the reduced (2 minute) signup time. Games per round, shot time, and number of entrants will be strictly controlled for this aim. Like friendly tournaments a tournament win is not credited, however TournaPoints and tournament double rankings still occur.

Currently I am imagining something like a micro tournament half past each hour with about 8 players, but this can be tuned over time.

Super tournaments are still in the pipeline (this update includes some of the groundwork).

Additionally, the TournaPoints are not shown on your home page until your first TournaPoint is won, basically only showing TournaPoints boards to competitors.

i think a 5 second micro tournament would be good, that could also mean you could more players in it ?

Nick, thanks for the tourny's back

Just one question how do we know if it's a friendly tourny or not ?

i won the first ever micro tournament

nick is also posible to put under your tournament wins, the amount of micro tournaments you have won ?

everyone gets lucky sometimes

hey i didnt get lucky.. i played well

love the updates thanks nick!!!....................just add another carom tourny and ill be happy lol

one thing that cocerns me about this micro torny is ill never get to play as my internet is slow so i know even if i try to join it will be 2 late as im pressing join unless 8 people arnt also on the ball

One way Potato is that you get used to what times they are and be ready and waiting to click - could work

it wont grae as i was on money on p*** in 2 micro tournaments and still was full

nick was on about continuous micro tournies though.

I only see Micro Arcade Tournys on the schedule....

shame that as there is enough arcade already

also another shame is tournapoints is all about arcade so the others lose a bit of value due to low number of entries.

lol some people are never happy, instead of moaning all the time why don't ya give Nick a break and praise him for all the hard work he does.

Obviously Nick wants to see how it goes first before adding every tournament, just like with everything else..

Great work once again.

No-one on this thread has moaned..

no moaning here pal

and i do praise nick for each update

was just saying on p*** tournapoints is equaled out as they have roughly same entries in each one.

snooker is different though as we have tougher game types like original and carom who don't get half as many entries.

can you see where i am coming from

i have i want another carom tourny

"I only see Micro Arcade Tournys on the schedule...."

You said that as if micro tournie's should of been added to every game type straight away, this is just a trial tournament to start off with.....did you expect there to be a trial one for every game type?

Arcade is the most popular so it explains why it was added to that first.

How would you know the context I say stuff? Your not me, are you?

Stop looking for problems.

And to answer you question, yes.

I'm not looking for problems, i was just putting you in the picture.

People like you make me laugh, just give it time and you'll be able to play micro tournie's in other game types, don't worry about it.