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Sign ups are now open for this tournament.

All info here     http://www.9balldotcom.co.uk/v9bwc2009.htm        As usual youll have to give me a working email so you can be contacted during the tourney.

Tourney due to start Saturday 18th of July.

if you want to take part,please message me in the VP3 lobby

Steve Chaplin(Mr  Celeris/Mr VIrutal Pool)  has posted a question on the Celeris Forum,not so much  does Virtual Pool need gamespy,but hes asking about fetures,functions and things you like or dislike about Gamespy as a game server.

Now its your chance to at least sontribute your responses and comments to let Steve  know  that this game will survive and can survive on its own,but only if you want it to.

 Although he doesnt elaborate in his question as to why?Its a simple conclusion that Celeris might want to plan ahead and go it alone in keeping Virtual Pool series under a more personal basis and might be planning for some sort of own server set up.

Read the post here  http://www.celeris.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1723

Make your own mind up about the content and reasoning behind his question,but please let  Celeris know your feelings and thoughts

Chocky has set  the highest VP3 tournament break and did it in magnificent style with a maximum 147 break in his second round  match of this years Virtual World Snooker Championships 2009  against srwest.

It now ties the record as the hignest break in online Snooker for Vp3  (Glen made a 147 in a friendly match against B11TME which is verified)and also for this tournament.

Congratulations to Chocky on a fantastic acheivement and   a terrific standard of play.

Here is a screenshot  of the moment and it sets Chocky into the record books...  

Tournament Director Application

In order to complete this application, please copy and paste it into an email and complete the questions in the email. Once complete, please forward to: Ladyhwk@kc.rr.com

The information that you give here is considered to be "STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL" and therefore it will NOT be given to anyone outside of VPHQ staff  for any reason.

1. Your full name:
2. Your primary email address: (No yahoo or hotmail please)
3. Age:
4. Country and time zone:
5. Do you have a messenger you use such as MSN, AIM or Yahoo?  If so, what is your name/number for this?
6.How long have you played in Gamespy? And please list ALL the screen names you have played under.
7. Have you ever hosted Pool tournaments before? If so… when and where? (please give details)
8.What are the 3 main reasons you would like to be an VPHQ Tournament Director?
9. Why do you feel that you would be a good tournament host?
10. What do you think you will get in return from hosting tournaments?
11.How would your closest friends describe your personality?
12.What do YOU feel is your strongest personality trait?
13.Name 3 persons in Gamespy Virtual Pool that would recommend you for this position.
14. What days and times will you be available to host tournaments?
15. What suggestions can you offer right now that would make tournament play more fun for the players?
16. As a "VIP", we are required to conduct ourselves in an fair, honest and impartial manner towards all players, do you feel that you can achieve this?
17.As we also represent Gamespy as VIPs, do you have a problem helping anyone who has a problem with the game?
18. What is "common sense"?
19. If you are hosting and two players come out of a match each claiming the win, how would you handle this? (please explain in detail)
20. If you are in the middle of a tournament and players start telling you that VPHQ sucks, your tournaments suck and you suck, how would you handle this?
21. What time zone would you primarily host tournaments for?
22. Do you have any comments or suggestions that you would like to make at this time?

Polomint who is one of VPHQ Tournament Directors has developed a small programme in his efforts to get those of us who have Routers and cannot get Virtual Pool 3DL to run on Gamespy.

The major problem for a lot of people who no doubt have purchased Vp3 in the past and come to the Gamespy Lobby,is that they cannot get Virtual Pool 3 to run due to the fact that they have to manually open ports in their router in order to let the game run.

This has to be the most annoying thing about making a purchase of the VP3DL version....you buy it,you install it...you play offline no problem at all and then when you try to join the online community you find your stumped by the fact that you need a degree in routers in order to try and get the game working.

Now I can speak personally of the problems with routers as I have a BT Hub which only through help from the lobby I got the game working through my router.

Many people like myself who are total Router novices need a way of sorting this out.

Virtual Pool 3DL needs specific ports opened in your router in order to work through Gamespy and  unless you understand the terminology involved and even though you can look at instructions online about your router,it is for most people a total confusing thing to try and mess with a router for fear of not being able to get online or causing major problems when your messing with something you know very little about.

I would not be suggesting this programme without having done a full test on it myself.

However.....there are some things you should be aware of prior or downloading this programme.

If like my router,you can create a backup of the configuration of your router....YOU SHOULD DO SO PRIOR TO TRYING THIS PROGRAMME.By doing so you will have saved the initial settings of your router as it was set when you first installed it...IE   YOU WILL BE ABLE TO USE YOUR BACKUP TO RESET YOUR ROUTER. 

So first thing I did was to reset my router to factory settings in order to try Polomints programme,so this I did but only after having already downloaded his programme to my desktop.

Then I followed the instructions on Polomints webpage and the programme opened up and did what it said it would do....it confirmed "PORTS OPENED"

So then after that,there was only one thing to try.....try and create a VP3DL game room......I did and it worked and you can see your room listed in the lobby.

So the last thing to do after that is......to try and join a room.....this I did and YES    it worked also.

In conclusion,If this programme can do what it says it does for many more people for Virtual Pool 3DL players,then I can only recommend it to as a major source of help to many potential players online. 

At the moment this remains a BETA version please use it at your own risk and neither Polomint,Celeris nor me are liable or responsible.....if it totally fecks your router up. 

It didnt do it to me.....so what do you think?

yOU CAN FIND THE LINK BELOW TO POLOMINTS ROUTER PROGRAMME.PLEASE READ DISCLAIMER, AND AGREE TO STATEMENT PRIOR TO USING PROGRAMME. 

POLOMINTS ROUTER PORTS PROGRAMME PAGE

             OUR OWN VP3 ROOM ON TEAMSPEAK 

RunoutRob has mangeed to fix it so that when you now join Teamspeak he can get you registered and then allow you to register to our own VP3 room rather than sitting in the main lobby on the server.

You will need to join teampeak whenever Rob is in the VP3 lobby and ask him to allow you to register to the VP3 server.

Once you have done that then you are free to meet up with your fellow VP3 players in our own room.

If you are still having difficulty then if you download TEAMVIEWER for this link TEAMVIEWER then you can allow someone to help you with your registration if your having difficulty.It allows someone to access your desktop and  guide you through the correct process.(Choose customer module to download teamviewer)

*****There are now 5 individual VP3 rooms on Teamspeak so that you and your opponents can join and play VP3 whilst you chat******

Hopefully this is one way of enhancing online play and making gameplay more enjoyable.

If your not sure just ask those who are using teamspeak at he moment and get their opinions.

Have you ever thought of what its like to actually talk to some of the crazy people you meet in the Virtual Pool3DL  lobby?

Well now you can and all you need is a Mic(preferably a headset)and then you need the teamspeak Client software so you can communicate.TEAMSPEAK GET IT HERE

Then once you got that installed you need to start teamspeak and  go to quick connect and put in this IP address

There is now a section on the VPHQ forum dedicated to Polomints Router fix programme,you can find it here Polomint's Router Programme

If you are experiencing problems with your router and getting your version of VP3DL working,then it might be worth trying it out.If you have anything you wish to commernt on or suggestions please feel free to post them here.

Heres what Steve Chaplin had to say about Polomints handywork

Steve Chaplin

"polomint,
Thanks for putting this together.

I'm not a big fan of uPnP, it has security issues and I doubt it will be as well supported in the future. But for how with XP, you have a solution that should get more people running.

I'm also not a big fan of using Windows Firewall unless your on a lan and need protection from users on the lan. A properly setup router/firewall should be sufficient.

polomint,
I would change the wording on your site for "firewall" to "windows firewall" as that was initially confusing to me as I think of most home routers as firewalls too. When you think the port opening software is sufficiently tested please send me a link and I will incorporate into the VP3 install."

You will now be able to watch Live streaming of Finals from the VP3 Lobby,you can do this by clicking this link to go to live streaming channelLIVEVP3TV      put the link in your favourites.

THE SEMI FINALS AND FINAL OF THIS YEARS V9BWC WILL BE STREAMED TO THOSE WHO CANT GET INTO THE ROOM TO WATCH 

I sent an email to Steve Chaplin to ask him a couple of things about somehow amalgamating a VPHQ Tourney system along with Celeris at some point in the future.I also explained the problem we have each year in actually gathering funds for the system and if he had any news or Info on VP GOLD.

Here is Steves response.

Its often been thought that only VIP'D VPHQ Tournament Directors have the sole rights to run  tournaments for Virtual Pool 3.

This in actual fact couldnt be further from the truth.Gamespy actively encourages you to get involved and organise your own thing,should you want to do an event or tournament or run your own ladder,you most certainly dont need to be a tournament director to do so.

All you have to make sure is that your event etc is run within the gamespy rules and guidleines that have been set out for you.

So there is no excuse,if you want to do something go ahead and do it, 

Heres Gamespy's guide to running your own tourneys,ladders or events Guidelines for Tournaments / Ladders / Leagues in GameSpy Arcade