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By defaulting to avoiding the matchup, or if not able to, then declaring it a tie. There's no reason to force people to play together.

GlitterBug wrote: ↑10 June 2025, 18:50 By defaulting to avoiding the matchup, or if not able to, then declaring it a tie. There's no reason to force people to play together.

Possibly workable if you have just one person you've red thumbed in a tournament with you. But what if you've red thumbed half the players?

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑09 June 2025, 18:50

Shanhop11 wrote: ↑09 June 2025, 12:53

blockmonoid wrote: ↑07 June 2025, 19:52 Thanks for the info! I was noticing that starting a day or two ago, I got 1 XP when a tournament finished, even if it had a small number of players. And just today, I got 12 XP and an achievement for being in the "top division" in a tournament, which I guess means top half of players, but that seems very generous considering that anyone who made it past round 1 got that achievement.

I was knocked out in the first round of a tournament and received a "Top Division" award. So you can get it for just finishing the tournament.

Although I think this is mainly to incentivize players not to drop out of Swiss tournaments after one or two early loses, it's nice that you get it for single-elimination as well.

I was pleasantly surprised by the extra trophy handouts. Just in time for my annual Decks out for Harambe tournaments to end. https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=384337 this one ended recently and passed out so many trophies

I was trying to win a Harambe trophy so bad, but I got knocked out early so I was a bit sad, but then the tournament ended fast and I got a participation trophy! It's like BGA devs knew I wanted a trophy. Lucky timing.

The FAQ should probably be updated - it is from 10 years ago, and doesn't even mention round robin.

I would also like some information about how tie-breakers work in tournament ranking (swiss and round robin.)

jmhajek wrote: ↑12 June 2025, 07:57 I would also like some information about how tie-breakers work in tournament ranking

Tiebreakers in ...
single elimination: viewtopic.php?t=36559 and viewtopic.php?t=41794
multiplayer elimination: viewtopic.php?t=35946
Swiss system: viewtopic.php?t=42955
round-robin: viewtopic.php?t=29137 and viewtopic.php?t=34998
general: viewtopic.php?t=38649 and viewtopic.php?t=39220

hi. can i create all the tournaments i want? its there any restriction about it. im thinking of to be a premiun player.

cjmartino wrote: ↑11 July 2025, 15:40 hi. can i create all the tournaments i want? its there any restriction about it.

There really ought to be, but apparently there are none.

Hi everyone. In some turn-based tournaments, I find myself playing all my games at the same time. Since I don't like these tournaments, I'd like to know how to avoid them. Thanks.

max827w wrote: ↑27 July 2025, 06:03 Hi everyone. In some turn-based tournaments, I find myself playing all my games at the same time. Since I don't like these tournaments, I'd like to know how to avoid them. Thanks.

This happens in round robin tournaments. Avoid those.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑27 July 2025, 07:21

max827w wrote: ↑27 July 2025, 06:03 Hi everyone. In some turn-based tournaments, I find myself playing all my games at the same time. Since I don't like these tournaments, I'd like to know how to avoid them. Thanks.

This happens in round robin tournaments. Avoid those.

Thanks you