Board Game Arena

mrdoctor wrote: ↑09 November 2023, 21:20

bossekaka wrote: ↑06 November 2023, 19:32

mrdoctor wrote: ↑24 July 2023, 01:00

Round robin matches all start simultaneously

@mrdoctor When you say that, do you mean that each player's all matches will start at the same time? That there's no way to get all first matches to be played before match 2 etc?
Don't know how to interpret your thumbs-up - do you find that being a good feature?

As far as I'm aware there's no way to make round-robin matches sequential rather than simultaneous, but in saying that I've not tried to change any tournament settings to 100% test that theory - maybe you can? Any premium member can set up a tournament.

My thumbs-up was just a thumbs-up. I don't feel in any way positively or negatively in the way round-robins work on BGA - it is how it is, and it'd be far far down my list of changes I'd like to make to BGA's tournament system so I haven't really given it any thought.

mrdoctor wrote: ↑12 November 2023, 19:14 Did that definitely work? The tournament didn't have enough sign-ups to actually start. Have you got an example where a tournament was set up like this, started, and it went as planned?

Sliceofbread wrote: ↑01 February 2024, 14:23 I set up a round-robin followed by single elimination tournament and specified a couple weeks between each game start (as the above post stated) and all the round-robin games started at the same time.

mrdoctor wrote: ↑01 February 2024, 14:35

Sliceofbread wrote: ↑01 February 2024, 14:23 I set up a round-robin followed by single elimination tournament and specified a couple weeks between each game start (as the above post stated) and all the round-robin games started at the same time.

Why not link to it, and maybe Mathew5000 can help you troubleshoot? He seems to be the only person who's successfully worked out how to do it.

02/16/2024 at 08:30: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (1 matches)
03/02/2024 at 08:45: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (1 matches)
03/18/2024 at 08:30: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (3 matches)

Sliceofbread wrote: ↑03 February 2024, 21:12 Good point. Here's the link https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=254849
And it still shows the "schedule" as of today as:

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02/16/2024 at 08:30: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (1 matches)
03/02/2024 at 08:45: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (1 matches)
03/18/2024 at 08:30: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (3 matches)

Mathew5000 wrote: ↑04 February 2024, 03:14

Sliceofbread wrote: ↑03 February 2024, 21:12 Good point. Here's the link https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=254849
And it still shows the "schedule" as of today as:

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02/16/2024 at 08:30: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (1 matches)
03/02/2024 at 08:45: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (1 matches)
03/18/2024 at 08:30: Ark Nova Champagne 2P February 2024 Challenge (3 matches)

Hmm, I don't know. One thing I would remark is that if you go to each group (for example, https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=269918 or https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=269919 ), on those pages the "Tournament agenda" is blank. But I don't know what the software thinks it will do with the tournament agenda for the "main tournament". Perhaps it's going to wait until Feb. 16 at 08:30 before beginning Stage 2 (the single-elimination stage) even if all groups are complete before then.

But it's not what you intended, so maybe report it as a bug at https://boardgamearena.com/bugs

Sliceofbread wrote: ↑01 February 2024, 14:23 I set up a round-robin followed by single elimination tournament and specified a couple weeks between each game start (as the above post stated) and all the round-robin games started at the same time.

13slimchance13 wrote: ↑04 February 2024, 11:41 I followed the instructions about Editing Match Dates given by Mathew5000 here:

https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... 49#p151349

I tried it & it doesn't appear to work in my configuration of having groups at the first stage and single elimination at the second stage. I tried to stagger the start dates for each player in each group of four so that each player got one opponent at a time, but everyone got three opponents simultaneously just the same as I had experienced without using the Edit Match Dates option.