ICC Guide :: Joining a Tournament

How do I join an online tournament?

Find what tournaments are being run by typing tell 220 tourney. Here is an example of the results of tell 220 tourney

You can click on one of the headers above to find out more information now.

If the tourney is marked as open you can join by typing tell bot join, if it is marked as late, you can join by typing: tell bot latejoin For details, click on the first line, where the words are underlined.

Once you joined a tournament, you are not suppose to play games, apart from tourney games!

The computer running the tournament will send you a "suggestion" to match your next opponent, just click on OK, and your next tournament game will start shortly. Here are some basic tournament commands you can invoke by typing tell bot command

 

COMMAND	MEANING
join	To join the current tourney
latejoin	To latejoin the tourney in progress
leave	To leave the current tourney before it starts
leave !	To leave the current tourney after it has started. If you leave a tourney in progress, you may get dr-pts. Type and read "tell tomato help dr-pts".
info	Gives info on the current tourney
pairings	Shows the pairings of the current round
grid	Shows the grid of the current tourney
players	Displays the current players list
games	Displays the games for the current round
finger	Shows info on a specified player
history	Shows old tourney-results on a specified Tomato player
rank	Shows the t-rating rank for a specified player