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I want to understand how the matching algorithm used in the second leg of a tournament works. I have a specific case in mind. There's a 15p tournament. First leg: Swiss, 3 players per game, 5 rounds. After 5 rounds, the first 5 players qualify to the second leg. Second leg: Single elimination, 3 pla...

Can you please tell me, how is the algorithm for deck with EPIs build? I understand the rules in the game, but not sure, if it is implemented the same here or not. EPI's? I guess Cigi means the deck with the epidemic cards -- it's called "player deck", right? The one with player cards and...

Just for the record: It's been 19 days since the big change. This Thursday we'll have completed 3 full weeks that disappoint many of us -- unless, of course, we see some substantial improvement. I still have some hope.

Could you explain to us what are the collateral issues going on with the invite system ? Maybe it could help us understand why it disappeared, and why we are losing such an essential tool for our tournaments. The only misuse I can think of is unsollicited players complaining about getting invite no...

This is definitely a problem with the implemented version here. Maybe the player below me on the list is the player on my left side (while I expected this would be the player on my right side, which I found out was not the case). Yes, the player whose name appears below yours on the players panel is...

I think it has to do with the positioning of the ellipsis. Notice that the two options for "Points attribution based on results", when you set up a tournament, are: (a) ..., +6, +4, +2, 0 (b) +6, +5, +3, +1, 0, 0, 0... I take that to mean that in option (a), last place gets 0; second-last...

It finished in 3 rounds. This didn't seem fair to me. You don't say why it doesn't seem fair to you. After just the second round there was already an undefeated player. Swiss is not meant to be a slow version of a round robin. It was just a feeling I got, especially knowing that the games didn't fi...

I had this Swiss-Auto tournament with 9 entrants (3p matches): https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=413295 It finished in 3 rounds. This didn't seem fair to me. But for me the real issue was with the points attribution. I used the +6, +5, +3, +1, 0, ... system, thinking that the players would ge...

By my calculation, 2025-07-08 at 14:00 UTC+2

It ended at 12:00 UTC (so, right, at 14:00 UTC+2).

Is this the standard time zone here on BGA? Is there a way to learn BGA's own 'local' time? It's assumed as the Paris time, I guess?

There is a relevant Q & A - discussion here: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=60108&hilit=Reflexion+time+standard+deviation#p60108 And I guess we should read "reflexion time standard deviation" as " thinking time standard deviation" instead. It's probably ...