3ripmav wrote: ↑28 July 2025, 23:25
WOULD LOVE... constructive, yet honest feedback. Anecdotal tidbits of your experiences... They that kicked me from Vale of Eternity to let me know why, and why they didn't check in first, anyone else who has thoughts or missives... reply here or DM me, just be civil and polite and I will do the same, always. Totally fine with agreeing to disagree and don't see "It's YOU" as a bad thing, just honest. I don't know what I don't know about the tournament community on here.
Cheers!
Hi, tournament host here. Looks like you are referring to this game:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=701629598 i'll give my thoughts.
A slow moving game overall in part due to having 3p with players from 3 opposite locations, USA, UK, AUS. Those are always tough to finish because its hard to get the whole table online together. Regardless, 120 hours thinking time (15 days) is pretty generous for 3p Vale of Eternity so I would prefer not to go any slower for game duration since that would slow down tournaments so much. There are no options between 15 days and 30 days so the difference would be brutal.
Looks like you made many of the moves quite fast, but you had a few periods of 16-20 hour thinking time on a single move, meaning you were likely away for longer than that while it was someone else's turn. If you were able to make a move every 8-10 hours you would have been fine.
The game was approaching 13 days when you were skipped which is quite long for 3p Vale of Eternity, not entirely your fault since you were only -11h when you were skipped. I would have liked to see the game continue so you could have a chance to reach 10 points to advance into finals.
Other games in the same stage in the tournament ran to completion despite 1 player going over time. I found other games that ended around 10- 12 days like
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=701622598&nr and
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=701625598&nr
It would have been nice to let you continue playing, but I am also not upset with the player skipping you since the game was dragging out so long.
For 3+ player tournaments I prefer to allow skips as the lesser evil for how to handle an incomplete game. I think a 3-3-0 score split with the overtime player getting 0 is more fair than the alternative which is players unable to skip and game results decided by thinking time. I would personally be upset to get 2nd place and 2 points in a game I was winning because 1 player used less time than me and the 3rd player is playing too slow.
BGA does not allow me any options other than skips allowed or no skips so the best I can do is allow skips and set the game duration to a very generous 15 days, 120 hours per player.
