bad or incorrect scoring system

[BillyBullet]

I lost two points because another player abandoned the game before the end. I was in first place but it was considered tie with the other 3 players who remained, this is absurd, the first to give up obviously gets fourth place and zero points and doesn't being punished the first place.

[FSKFSK]

That is unfortunately the way the tournament engine works. (I assume this was a Swiss tournament.) If one player is kicked for running out of time, the other players are considered tied, even if one player had an insurmountable lead and was 1 turn away from winning.

I can create a tournament and exclude players with low karma, but it's too easy to recover karma after timing out in a tournament game (I believe it's only -4 karma.) I'd like a tournament setting to just ban anyone who timed out on a tournament game in the last 30 days. (Yes I know people can miss games for valid reasons; that's why I only said 30 days instead of 90 days.)

[mrdoctor]

I believe OP is referring to this specific game: https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=249907029

"Move 81 :07:04:34 - pronoiauniversal is out of time, so BillyBullet skips his/her turn"

Essentially - OP skipped someone's turn for being slightly out of time (with a third or so of the game left to play, and 3 days into a 7 day long game), and then complained that they got penalised when they themselves initiated the action that caused them to lose points (on the assumption they would have still won).

[Cheery Dog]

In my opinion people that take the opportunity to remove someone from a tournament game should be considered second last.