Talk About Tennis 2.0

Should I have slept with Steven

ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:45 pm

Thanks to both of you!

That many times, huh?

the Moz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:48 pm Should I have slept with Steven

Had you, you might have gotten an unfair advantage in an obscure British bracket contests on another tennis board that I'm pretty sure no longer exists.

mmmm8 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:47 pm

the Moz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:48 pm Should I have slept with Steven

Had you, you might have gotten an unfair advantage in an obscure British bracket contests on another tennis board that I'm pretty sure no longer exists.

And was well worth it ! Not that I ever did well of course.

Would someone please explain to this Luddite what the meaning/significance/context of this 'I slept with Steven' is?
And does it refer to a particular 'Steven'? If not, why was that particular name chosen?

God help my curiosity regarding this.

One of the contests we used to have was called Battle of the Boards (I think.) I think it was basically just a straight forward bracket prediction challenge for each of the slams. The difference was you could have a home “tennis site” (like tat) picked when you signed up. Then as tournament went on one board would face another and one would move on based on its sites predictions. Was pretty fun and had lots of long term stats tracking and rankings etc.

And the guy who ran it was named Steven. He would post in our forum to promote it so someone made up that gif to joke that we were willing to do whatever to win the contest for TAT.

ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:37 am One of the contests we used to have was called Battle of the Boards (I think.) I think it was basically just a straight forward bracket prediction challenge for each of the slams. The difference was you could have a home “tennis site” (like tat) picked when you signed up. Then as tournament went on one board would face another and one would move on based on its sites predictions. Was pretty fun and had lots of long term stats tracking and rankings etc.

And the guy who ran it was named Steven. He would post in our forum to promote it so someone made up that gif to joke that we were willing to do whatever to win the contest for TAT.

This is how I first found TAT, I used to play that contest under CentreCourtTennis where I frequented at the time, so when that board closed I defected!

ptmcmahon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 16, 2021 6:37 am One of the contests we used to have was called Battle of the Boards (I think.) I think it was basically just a straight forward bracket prediction challenge for each of the slams. The difference was you could have a home “tennis site” (like tat) picked when you signed up. Then as tournament went on one board would face another and one would move on based on its sites predictions. Was pretty fun and had lots of long term stats tracking and rankings etc.

And the guy who ran it was named Steven. He would post in our forum to promote it so someone made up that gif to joke that we were willing to do whatever to win the contest for TAT.

Thanks for the explanation. Interesting background. Not at all what I was expecting. I thought it was something that everyone who has ever used the internet knew - except me. I had no idea it was an exclusive TAT thing.

Dare I ask if anyone knows where Steven is now?

Sleeping?

And not only thanks for the explanation about who was Steven, I always wondered why the contest was called Battle of the Board.

The contest ended several years ago, so not sure where Steven is now. I believe he lived in the UK but that could be me misremembering too.

I have another technical question, one that totally exposes my technophobia. When I log in on my phone, I tick the “remember me” box, but when I next open the page-I have been logged out automatically. So I then have to log in and tick the box again that doesn’t work. On other sites I go, my log in info is saved and i am automatically logged in when I open the page so I don’t think it’s my phone settings doing this. Any advice please guys!

Here I don't think I can help you, but: are you logging in via TAPATALK, or are you opening the forum straight as a webpage in your phone?
The style we are using (Prosilver) and all of its dependents (and almost all our styles are such) is responsive to mobile and tablet configs. I just went into my phone and opened the site from a mobile browser (duckduckgo) and it looks actually very nice.
I am on Android 7. What phone and OS are you on?

BTW. For those that use TAPATALK or other mobile systems. Give the forum a try as it is, from a browser. It is basically identical to what we see here on-line. Let us know how you like it (or don't) so we can keep tweaking.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 2:26 pm Here I don't think I can help you, but: are you logging in via TAPATALK, or are you opening the forum straight as a webpage in your phone?
The style we are using (Prosilver) and all of its dependents (and almost all our styles are such) is responsive to mobile and tablet configs. I just went into my phone and opened the site from a mobile browser (duckduckgo) and it looks actually very nice.
I am on Android 7. What phone and OS are you on?

BTW. For those that use TAPATALK or other mobile systems. Give the forum a try as it is, from a browser. It is basically identical to what we see here on-line. Let us know how you like it (or don't) so we can keep tweaking.

I have an IPhone X and have this site on my bookmarks on Google. I think I tried Tapatalk in the past and found it much more cumbersome to navigate than TAT so I deleted it

Dear all.
One thing that we have been missing from TAT1.0 is the ability to go to the FIRST UNREAD POST of any thread you want to navigate to. Our RECENT TOPICS RIBBON does this: 1. If you click the little red icon, it will take you to the VERY LAST POST of that thread. If you have been away for a while, you may have to back-scroll to read everything that has been posted.
2. But you can see that in the TOPICS section it tells you that you have read the last post to the last topic. It shows you a grey link.
3. But if you go to the FORUM ITSELF:
You will see that next to the TOPIC name, you will see little red folders. These links will take you to THE FIRST UNREAD POST (by you) IN THE TOPIC. This way, you can continue to read from the last post you read.

Courtesy of Drop Shot, who noticed this function. I am sure others have too, but just so we all are in the same page. Which we are, because... here you are, reading this same page.
Ok, I'll be gone. Hope this is helpful.