New Tournament Pages are here: Better, Faster, and Mobile-Friendly!

[Falzano]

Better?
In the summary page of tournaments there are HUGE and USELESS images, instead fundamental details of tournaments (i.e. number of players at the table, type of rules, and so on).

Get us back the previous version please!

[ddbas]

Invite option is a must have for private groups tournaments. Without it the amount of participants will drop close to 0. Because players for whatever reason are not so addicted as us organizer and don't check the group announcement board regularly...

[dajacra]

Flavor text of a Magic card?!?! More like the text box of a YuGiOh card!

[Diger74]

This 'mobile friendly' was clearly implemented by the person who has no experience nor interest playing tournaments. Terrible UI!

- no number of games played
- no tiebraker
- scrolls all over the place that lose context
- you need to scroll hours to see the table

Do you really think fast players are interested to see the tournament config for already running tournament? And not to view where they are on the rank? Really?

[mrdoctor]

I've set-up and partaken in a lot of tournaments. The new user-interface seems to make it more complex/confusing to navigate than it was before, for both setting-up and joining tournaments. As far as I can tell, the only new feature is the extension to allow 60/90-day games, and some features seem to be inexplicably removed (ie. inviting players, and being able to view tiebreaker info in the ranking tables). Appreciate the time that's been taken to update the UI, but I feel there's a lot of design choices I'd have done differently to make it more streamlined and easier to use.

I'd recommend adding a 'tournaments' link to the top of your site where it already says 'play now/news/games/community'forums' - just that small tweak would direct a lot of people to the tournaments pages.

[DubFederalis]

Thank you for taking action to improve BGA. Despite the complaints, it's appreciated.
However, the table for tournaments is now missing key information: number of games played, wins/losses, point differential. These are important.

[Skihorse]

It looks good but is missing some features that used to be there:
1. Seeing standings such as round robin W/L and tiebreakers.
2. Inviting individual players
3. Tournament standings visible in each game without clicking away.

Would love to see:
1. Ability to "play again" a tournament with the same people and same settings. I am on Season 165 with my same group of friends.
2. Ability to post historical stats for continued tournaments.

Thank you! Tournaments have always been one of my favorite features of BGA!

[Meeplelowda]

But I am still baffled that you rolled this out already. I was part of the early-access tester group and I DID remark that you cannot see the tiebreakers in the tables. It's such a glaring issue. It's very disappointing that you did not fix that before the release.

So did I. This isn't a "nice to have" feature. It is a must have and it was already there before!

This seems like a design choice made my someone who doesn't understand how Swiss and Round Robin tournaments work, in which case what was the point of soliciting feedback from people who DO play them?

[miklomike]

I hope you will listen to the great feedback you have here. Please, if something is supposed to be improved, actually make it an improvement and not just change for the sake of change. Removing important aspects of a working system is not an improvement.

[budejovice]

Others have covered the constructive well. So I'll just say... it's not great. An instant enthusiasm dampener.