Tournaments FAQ

[senatorhung]

Me again I fear! A fixed time tournament - in other words we have 36 hours each to complete a game of Backgammon. I'm so far ahead in the game it isn't true (seven men off already while he has six stuck in my home table or on the bar!) And he's nearly five hours overtime so I assume he's lost anyway. I skip him, and now the clock isn't running at all so I quit. Result recorded as win for me, but we score .5 points each in the tournament.

That can't be right!

yeah, this just happened to me in a takenoko turn.based tourney.

skipped the other player who didn't play a single turn.

clicked the quit button to close out the game.

got a tie result.

in future, i will know to play out the game and get the actual win before exiting the game.

[Pedros]

Even that may not work senatorhung - we had a case when a player let it run out and LOST the game! http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!bug?id=4361

[Pedros]

Hi,

Sorry about the delay for fixing bug on tournaments. Believe it or not, but this was very difficult to simulate turn-based tournaments and reproduce issues. Now we are much better equipped and manage to fix the bugs.

3 bugs fixed today :

• Turn-based + Swiss system now works properly.
• When you specify that games for a tournament has a maximum duration of X days, this is now really X days (and not a much longer delay).
• When a game is not finished on expected delay, the player with the most remaining thinking time wins the game (and consequently, the player who is responsible for the too long game lose the game).

Is this necessarily the case sourisdudesert? http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!bug?id=4361 reports a case where the delaying player was judged to have WON the game. Wouldn't it be possible for a player who is playing very slowly to keep entering just enough moves to top up their time available to the full amount, and then to do that just before the axe falls, so they have most time remaining?

No idea what the solution would be, but something's wrong somewhere - http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!bug?id=4361

[senatorhung]

Even that may not work senatorhung - we had a case when a player let it run out and LOST the game! http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!bug?id=4361

yeah, we have a fixed time Race tourney ... as soon as the 3 days was up, i reluctantly skipped my opponents ... otherwise they could skip me even though i had time left.

even after skipping .. you have to play out the game to get the win. otherwise the result will be a draw.

[dudi2]

What is the official rule for tree-based tournaments if there is a draw at the end of the game, like in
http://de.boardgamearena.com/#!table?table=19458330

Here the game ended with a draw, I had more time left, but skillsan has been qualified for the next step of tournament.

I found no answer to this kind of question in the FAQ up to now.

[sprockitz]

The tiebreak in this place is the rating of the players.

[qpenguin]

The question is: is it the player with lower or higher rating whom gets to proceed to the next round?

If I remember correctly, my test tournament on hanabi http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!tournament?id=2483, the player with higher rating qualified for the next round; whereas in one of my quoridor tournaments http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!tournament?id=3293, I tied with Aspiration but he was qualified for the next round instead (although my elo was higher).

P/S: We were just testing out if the tournament format works for Hanabi. Apparently it doesn't.

[pap]

Dungeon Twister Tournament ....

Hi, as a DT backers but not (yet ?) support BGA players, should be possible to create any DT tournament here ... ?

Pap
DT official international referee

[sprockitz]

The question is: is it the player with lower or higher rating whom gets to proceed to the next round?

If I remember correctly, my test tournament on hanabi http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!tournament?id=2483, the player with higher rating qualified for the next round; whereas in one of my quoridor tournaments http://en.boardgamearena.com/#!tournament?id=3293, I tied with Aspiration but he was qualified for the next round instead (although my elo was higher).

P/S: We were just testing out if the tournament format works for Hanabi. Apparently it doesn't.

It used to be player rating, perhaps time taken now takes priority as that was implemented as the tiebreaker for games that don't finish.

[Oso]

Dungeon Twister Tournament ....

Hi, as a DT backers but not (yet ?) support BGA players, should be possible to create any DT tournament here ... ?

Pap
DT official international referee

Yes, when a game is presented, memberships can create tournaments of ALL games. I will create a tour of this game, but only around 10-15 days after for fix bugs...