Don't I need to approve a game for it to start?

[ChiefPointThief]

I think op is joining arena on accident and doesn't realize it but this is what I was referring to. I have been asking about this for a long time and never got an answer.

https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... ne#p139975

I join arena intentionally and click on a different tab until someone's found (I don't know why it takes so long to find someone, Ticket To Ride is afaik the third most popular BGA game).

When someone's found and I'm on the confirmation screen, the tab title changes to spinning triangles as a way to say "I need attention" and I usually notice that, but when it loads in immediately, these triangles don't display and boom, -20 karma.

The problem may occur when being on a different tab. This just happened to me. It alerted me to tell me i was being minus points but not that my game had actually started. I was here waiting for it. Considering that the arena scoring system is already bad this isn't good. I also lost double elo which doesn't make sense considering it was a system error.