Lettuce03 wrote: ↑10 November 2025, 00:59
The game was on day 9/10 before ending, and it’s very unlikely that the kicked player would have committed to play enough turns to end the game on the final day (only 50% progression after 9 days).
Admittedly, I didn't look closely, just at the graph on the game replay of time. You were all losing time at reasonably similar rates actually. At the end of the game, you were at about 11.5 hours, your other non-timed out opponent at 6.5 hours, and you say your opponent was at -15 hours when you kicked them. It was about 12 hours between the kicking and the game ending. So if you were only at 50% by that point, then based on the speed you had been going at, I don't think you were on track to finish it even if the other player hadn't gone into negative time. But a lot of moves got played in those final 12 hours, I'll agree.
Lettuce03 wrote: ↑10 November 2025, 00:59
Also, the kicked player was at the most advantageous time slot, being a European player 2, sandwiched between a European player 1 and US player 3. So he did not draw the short straw in terms of play order.
How do you know? They were both European, but were they on the same timezone? There is more than 1 European timezone. Even if they were on the same timezone, how do you know what each player's schedule was? Within a given 24 hour period, most people take a large chunk away from their computer. That MAY be overnight, or it may not. But the play time taken shows that the third player was losing larger chunks of their time than you and the other player, hence them being the first to run out. Their moves did indicate they were getting online more than once a day, although possibly not enough to complete the game in time. But then, as I said, based on the time each of you had left, I don't think you would have made it even if the other player had somehow managed to stay out of the red.
Lettuce03 wrote: ↑10 November 2025, 00:59
The game continued and ended normally, so let’s award the qualification to the winner. What’s more, the game doesn’t warn you that if you kick, you can’t qualify for the next round. Finally, if a player should choose to leave, you just lose, which is absurd.
The game didn't continue and end normally - one player passed all of their turns because they were no longer in the game. While you can argue that's a valid playing strategy, that's not normal gameplay. BGA currently made the decision that games that end abnormally are considered void - the booted player loses, all other players tie for the win. Scores don't matter. If you've kicked people before, I would have thought you would have seen that. It doesn't matter if you play on against the dummy AI and win - that's not normal gameplay anymore.
As far as warning you, I doubt there's anything in BGA that would be able to figure out at the time of you kicking that due to the combination of your account ages and the settings of the tournament (multi-player elimination), your decision to kick might lead to you being eliminated. You can figure that out, but I'm guessing the way it's programmed is that the tournament flow is completely separate to the game flow. Game ends for whatever reason - then it moves on to figuring out who gets eliminated from the tournament.
And you're right, if that player had quit on their own, the outcome would have been the same. Unfortunately, that's just bad luck for you. But that's not what happened - you chose to kick without checking the consequences first.
