Board Game Arena

I would very much enjoy being part of this. I've been an avid user of BGA for over 2 years, and am excited about all the new innovation and features. A few qualifications: I regularly create and run tournaments, in a smaller scale (8-12 people), so I'm familiar with the interface and different optio...

Andrew Davidson wrote: ↑05 June 2023, 15:21 I may undertand this better now but how do holiday jokers affect this?

I don't think holiday jokers make a difference in the overall tournament time game, they just let you avoid going negative and getting kicked from a game early.

I run small turn-based tournaments with friends and family, and for most games, the 30 day time limit for each game works fine. But some games require a lot of turns or a lot of player interaction on every turn, so a player may need to take 60-80 turns in a game (Earth is the latest example of this)...

Well, I have some results if anyone is interested. The short answer is, no, BGA has not solved the Social Golfer problem. I was a bit facetious in assuming so, but I was curious how close it would get. Again for context: Tournament had 9 players We played 4 rounds of 3-player games In one case I set...

- set the tournament to "may play the same player twice" and accept partial repeats Our problem so far is that because there are not that many people in the tournament, repeats are fairly frequent. In fact, after the first round, the winners of each 3 games play each other, and it's basic...

I'm running small tournaments of friends and family, 9 people total, so we're splitting into groups of 3 and playing 3-player games using the Swiss system. If I choose the "don't try and match to the same opponent" option, and I only do 4 rounds of matches, then technically each player sho...