TOMATO

***** TOMATO *****

Tomato is a special program for running tournaments on ICC.

Tomato is almost always logged in.  You can get more information by doing

"finger Tomato",   
"tell Tomato help"
"tell Tomato info"

Thousands of tournaments have been run by Tomato managers.  To see the 
currently scheduled tournaments, look in "help tournaments".  There are 
many other tournaments every day with various time controls.  The special 
Tomato channel where you can get info on tournaments and talk to the players 
and the Tomato managers is 221.  You can request a tournament, type tell 221
'a 5 0 swiss would be nice.' You can check on tournaments, type tell 220
'tournaments?'

There are now 10 copies of the Tomato program, each with its own channel,
and tournament type:

        Tomato       channel 46         blitz
        Flash        channel 49         bullet
        Slomato      channel 222        standard
        WildOne      channel 223        wild (chess variants)
        Cooly        channel 224        any
        LittlePer    channel 225        any
        pear         channel 227        Special events
        Automato     channel 226        Special events  
        Ketchup      channel 228        any
        Olive        channel 230        any, especially Time Odds
        Yenta        channel 232        Special events

Whenever a tournament is announced, you can join via "tell bot join".
If you aren't already in the tournament channel, do "+ch ##" to join channel
##.

Bots make the pairings for each round, including the color assignments,
and prints these to channel ##.

Tomato has its own set of help files and commands.  Tomato also keeps
information about each player.  Type tell tomato help and tell tomato finger.

Tomato managers volunteer a lot of their time to run the tournaments and
help players with questions.  You can see a list of Tomato managers who
are logged in by typing tell tomato managers.

Tomato managers are not ICC admins in general (although some are) so they
don't have control over other aspects of ICC besides the Tomato programs.
Please be courteous to managers and other players, and have fun in the
Tomato tournaments!  For information on becoming a Tomato manager, please
refer to "help manager-new". Thanks.

See also: tournaments, event, event2, Weekly, U1500, Over1400,
          Thematic, manager-new