Board Game Arena

The basic game is pretty random, but you have some chance to recover by churning cards. The "advanced" game is just awful. If someone gets a really good speakeasy, they win. I don't understand why it's been chosen as the Arena format. Worse than just being random, you know who will win fro...

[so to see the tournament page you first have to click the BGA logo in the upper-left corner of the game page, and then click the tournament name. Thanks for that enlightenment. However, that is utterly terrible UI design. I've played thousands of games and have never clicked on that BGA logo befor...

The most useful updates to tournaments would be: 1) Massive karma loss for players who go over time and cause tournament games to not run to completion. The site gives hefty karma loss for going over time in a normal game, which affects only the players of that game, but tiny karma loss to those who...

The "tournament" tab on games used to display the current situation in the tournament that the game is in, if it's a tournament game. Then, a few months ago, the tournament tab functionality was seriously reduced. It became just a link to the tournament, making the user click through to th...

If a game is broken, by which I mean it is stuck partially loaded, is there any way (direct URL, etc) to get to concede it or propose to abandon it, etc? Those functions shouldn't require the game to have loaded, but they don't appear on the screen until after that happens. I'm wondering this becaus...

The speed improvements are great. I always wondered why Tichu was so incredibly sluggish. I assumed it was incredibly poor, inefficient coding, not deliberate delays to make the game awful. Why would anyone do that? The new button positions are much better, but it'll take me some time to get used to...

The initial title was Rauha: make Rauha great again! But a few, hyper sensitive BGA members, who involve politics in everything were very offended by the title because they felt it was a dogwhistle to Trump’s campaign slogan “make america great again” and the initial title was changed to please the...

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If you kick the player for running out of time, I'm not sure how the tournament ranks people. I think it's random? In the past, the tie-break was age of BGA account. i.e. In an elimination tournament, the kicked player is eliminated plus other players whose accounts are newest. However, I just had ...

This is why I exclusively play "multiplayer elimination" tournaments only. The slow/absent players get knocked out in the first or second round. After that, you know you're going to play for real. That's not much of a solution. Unless the elimination tournament only eliminates 1 player pe...