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How competitive are our tournaments? I checked ELO of our last Carca tournament and compared with some others: Knock Out Cup V1, average ELO of all the 32 players was 268 COPA Interamigos August 2023, the top 32 of 100+ players had ELO of 413 The average ELO of all the 32 players playing in EUROTA C...

The membership counts nearly 400 players by know: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=12798722 The point of EUROTA is to organize tournaments with time zone compatible players. Thus making the whole experience much more enjoyable and smooth. Anybody who played a BGA tournament knows that waiting for...

Each player has a set time on the clock. The game will timeout only if all time is used up. So, if one guy has 24h on his clock, the other guy can go up to -24h and than the game maker closes the table, kicks the play who timeout out and attributes victory to the one who has a positive clock. The sa...

Trying to be constructive. Perhaps an improvement would be if fast turn-based games (those with limited playing hours) could only be joined during the playing hours. At least you'd be sure that the player has been active once in the right period. Yeah, that makes sense, that actually could help. Or...

That's the problem .. I already do that and people ignore it. You overestimate how much people study game setups. Most people read the game setup only afterward they already timeout, complain and are pointed toward reading the setup by me ...

So, by you own argument, you are cutting out 10% of the population from gaming, correct? 880 000 current users can't play? Don't know how you calculated that .. but my argument is simply that most people sleep during night. That's what I am saying in that post. Its related to the point that time zo...

Fuddly wrote: ↑26 November 2022, 09:52

why timeouters angry me so much

Anger makes for better opponents, right?

Correct I oppose timeouts with my timezone based fast tournament group: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=12798722

What could be useful is a per-player setting to specify which are your "active" hours during the day. Then you could restrict a game to specific active (timezone-adjusted) hours. That would be similar to the language setting, at least it would be something each player can change, and not ...

For most cases it does .. there are exceptions but usually between 1am and 5am 90% of people sleep in any time zone ...

Yes, most people play in the evening when they get off work, and most jobs have work hours of about 8 to 5. But not all. I personally work a service job, and am at work from 5p to about 11p, the prime gaming time for most in my time zone. Well ... I have a PC job, I play the whole day. Anyway, this...