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BalGAmor wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 10:47 Tie-breakers are back! Check the patchnotes here: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... 89#p244289

As mentioned before, we are still looking into some of the points that your raised. We'll keep you posted.

sdmartinca wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 19:11

BalGAmor wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 10:47 Tie-breakers are back! Check the patchnotes here: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... 89#p244289

As mentioned before, we are still looking into some of the points that your raised. We'll keep you posted.

Thanks! Note that Tiebreak standings need correcting now for Swiss tournaments. TBs when points the same should be:
1. opponents points
2. opponents ELO avg

Right now the standings are ordered the other way around so they will be incorrect. See: https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?i ... rogression for an example.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 20:03

sdmartinca wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 19:11

BalGAmor wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 10:47 Tie-breakers are back! Check the patchnotes here: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... 89#p244289

As mentioned before, we are still looking into some of the points that your raised. We'll keep you posted.

Thanks! Note that Tiebreak standings need correcting now for Swiss tournaments. TBs when points the same should be:
1. opponents points
2. opponents ELO avg

Right now the standings are ordered the other way around so they will be incorrect. See: https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?i ... rogression for an example.

The standings are correct, they are just displaying the tiebreaker criteria in an unintuitive order. They are not applying them in the wrong order.

If they were really ranking them by average opponent's Elo first, then the player currently in 5th place with 6 points and average opponent's Elo of 540 would be ranked ahead of the player currently in 2nd place with 8 points and average opponent's Elo of 406. But that's not the case. Everyone at the top of the standings has 8 points. And among those, they are sorted in descending order by average opponent's Elo, as they should be.

sdmartinca wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 20:47 If you look at the top-4 (all tied for the lead with 8 points), Raxxax is ranked first. If avg ELO is the 2nd TB, that would be correct (since his avg opponent ELO is highest with 536). However, I believe marvely should be ranked first (currently in third) since his opponents-points is 10 .. which is higher than Raxxax & Spitzbueb who are at 8. At least that is the way things were ranked in the previous versions of this tournament.

dschingis27 wrote: ↑25 February 2026, 22:44 so I suppose they know already about the tiebreaker problem.

BalGAmor wrote: ↑20 February 2026, 18:15 First of all, the new tournament pages are a big change for us, and for you. We understand it may not please everyone.

That being said, thank you for all the feedback.

We won't be able to answer all your concerns today as we need to look deeper into a lot of them. But here are a few things I can share with you already:

• The time zone issue is known and should be fixed soon.
• Tie breakers and other missing infos for Round Robin and Swiss are known issues and should be fixed soon.

You brought up other points that we will discuss internally, such as the recommanded tournaments section, scrolling on mobile or additional filters. Keep in mind that discussing the examples above does not mean it will be changed, but they are things we want to review.

Regarding the invite system as it was before, we noticed some misuse with collateral issues. This needed to be changed. We are looking into a solution that would allow tournament creators to have an improved tool addressing this issue.

I'll keep monitoring your feedback and will answer when possible.