Board Game Arena

Is it just me, or did they change you being able to see where your opponent is ranked for arena matches? It's not just you. The season announcement at the beginning of this thread said no Arena rules changes this season, and then 2 days later, they made 3: opponents are anonymous during table set-u...

"Rule changes" refers to game rules (number of players, expansions, variants, etc.) not to general BGA framework functionality. That's just incorrect. The announcement (https://boardgamearena.com/news?id=982) has a section about Arena format and gurus, that details how game formats are ch...

There were previously situations in which a victory in the arena did not result in arena points being gained? I've always gained arena points with a victory. I believe that if you were 2 or more leagues above your opponent, then a victory didn't award you stars in your league. So it only applied in...

This should now be fixed. Names shouldn't appear anymore. Please go to Bug Reports if it does. Thanks for fixing whatever remaining issues there were with suppressing usernames in the Arena game start screen. However , it is still the case that that change to username presentation is absent from th...

I have a better idea, GET RID OF ARENA! Why? No one is forced to play Arena. BGA offers so many different modes of play, why would you want to take one away? If you don't enjoy it, don't play it. I'm not particularly into tournaments and wouldn't miss them if they were gone, but I would never advoc...

They confirmed the charge this Morning in the Changelog That's a confirmation of one of the two major changes they made. And I think it's the one that's less of a "rule" change than "you can't know who your opponents are until all players accept and the game starts". Which again...

No Arena rules are changing this season.

Except BGA is apparently radically changing the new game start up screen without telling us in advance, 2 days into the season.

Discussions post here: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45307

On Tuesday, the new season announcement said: No Arena rules are changing this season. Today, suddenly, opponents are anonymized with "Player x", and one has to manually accept the game. Neither of these are bad changes, in fact I think they're good ideas. But with no notice, they look lik...

The rules say that ties result in shared victory. How are tie breaks handled for tournament advancement? I'm in a tournament now, with tables of 4 where 2 advance, and there have been a couple games where there were ties, and one of the tied players was eliminated. How is that determined?