Vint.ee New Year greetings!

Hello and Happy New Year! Another year has passed on the vint.ee portal. As has become a tradition, I will summarize the previous year and talk a little about the plans for the next year. Vint.ee in numbers in 2017 2229 new users registered on the portal and 8624 tournaments were held, in which 2729 users participated. Popularity of games (duration in man-hours): 1) Sasku - 70320 2) Tuhat - 32031 3) Chess - 22580 4) Sudoku - 19067 5) 4-person peredkidnoi - 16804 6) Bismarck - 12846 7) Checkers - 11266 8) Duubelda - 7483 9) Podkidnoi and peredkidnoi - 5286 10) Crosswords - 4164 11) Gomoku - 2114 12) Küned - 1478 13) Entropia - 304 14) Neli-rytta 240 15) Othello - 162 16) Lines Of Action 56 17) Art Lesson 43 As you can see, the success of sasku is still sky-high. The popularity of Thousand has been significantly increased by tournaments, which have been played until the early hours of the morning in recent days. The new game "Art Hour" was played almost as much in the last two days of the year as Lines of Action was played in the whole year! In total, 206214 man-hours were played on the vint.ee portal in 2017. This is the same amount as 564 people would have played for one hour every day. Innovations in 2017 * At the beginning of the year, we improved tournament invitations so that card players could see invitations to card game tournaments, board game enthusiasts to board game tournaments, etc. * We also improved the credit distribution in paid tournaments . It seems to have been beneficial: last year, 79 paid tournaments took place! * We improved the forum - now you can see how many people have read your topic and we created a consolidated view of all the user's forum posts. * We started fighting spammers and introduced automatic banning of spammers. * We finally officially opened the crossword puzzle room. We solve an average of 100 daily crossword puzzles every day! * We made a big technical leap forward and made communication with the vint.ee server significantly more secure. As a side effect of this update, the vint.ee game room is now accessible from all computer networks! In addition to the Mind Sports Olympiad, several other competitions were also held at vint - for example, Determining the best card player in Estonia and a pair competition in solving sudoku. It was quite a short time, but we kept our promise (one new game every year) and at the end of the year we opened a drawing game or art lesson game room. Plans for 2018 * The art lesson game still needs some work - users can now enter new words to draw. If we have enough words in the database, we can also create a rating system. * We are improving 4-person perekidnoi tournaments * There is no other way - to ensure transparency and protect ourselves from attacks as if the card distribution in vint is "distorted", we record all played hands and offer the opportunity to view the history of your played hands. * We will definitely start developing some new games. We will create a poll, wait for the opinion of at least 200 users and then decide which game vint we will create next. Finally, I would like to thank all vint.ee users who put their ideas to work on our portal. Special thanks, of course, to our supporters and VIP users, without whom we would not have come this far. Happy New Year, may your mind continue to be sharp and your thoughts to move! Best wishes, Vint.ee Team