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I submitted it as a formal suggestion. Please vote! https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=107708Alloran wrote: ↑15 August 2023, 18:27This does seem like the most elegant solution short of disabling skipping turns in tournaments entirely. In fact, I feel like this should be the case everywhere on BGA. It allows tables to kick people who really are egregiously not playing (just vanish for days or whatever), while removing the ability for players to abuse the system by kicking someone who is still playing for selfish reasons. I like this a lot, it seems like it has a lot of upsides, no downsides, and should be very easy to implement.Mathew5000 wrote: ↑13 August 2023, 20:21 1. A player who is out of time can be expelled only with the unanimous agreement of all players who are not out of time.
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=55235 #55235: "Allow bespoke timings for turn based tournaments"nik592 wrote: ↑23 October 2023, 11:521. Tournament creators need more flexibility in creating their tournaments. This could include longer time limits or turn-based time limits, instead of only fixed (both are generally workable, the first is probably slightly better for tournaments where timing of rounds can be important).
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=31395 #31395: "Tournament clock time doesn't take time zone into account"nik592 wrote: ↑ 2. Playing hours could be made more workable if they respected different timezones - that is, playing hours are between 10am-10pm in YOUR timezone, not in the timezone of the tournament creator. So I can take my turn during the day, and it flips to a player on the other side of the world where it's currently 4am. Their clock won't start ticking again til 6am. This unfortunately is not as easy as it sounds to develop (which is probably why it hasn't been).
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=107708 #107708: "In tournament games, expelling a player who is out of time should be a unanimous decision"nik592 wrote: ↑ 3. Booting in tournaments needs to be improved. Either booting needs to be an "everyone at the table vote", or booting needs to be able to be disabled for tournaments (tournament games have a maximum time related to the selected time limit, so the tables won't run forever if someone AWOLs).
I couldn't find a suggestion directly on this point, but there are several that are peripherally related:nik592 wrote: ↑ 4. The ways of awarding placements when a tournament game does not complete needs to be improved. Currently it's based on most time remaining (if the game is allowed to time out), or seniority of account (if someone is booted). Neither of these is any particular indication of who might be more deserving of the win. Time might mean something if the playing hours respected individual timezones. But this one is tricky, as there isn't an easy way to know who is winning at a given point in many games, due to non-linear scoring conditions (which is probably how most games work).
Yes, I am a premium member and I wish the site would devote some resources to improving tournaments. The links I provided above include some suggestions that I agree with, and some that I don't. I wanted to collect all the relevant suggestions I could find, so that anyone following this thread can read the various suggestions and vote for the ones they agree with.nik592 wrote: ↑ And there may be more issues. Creating a good tournament system isn't easy and this one certainly isn't perfect. Unfortunately, it also seems to be not under any kind of active development either.
). But as I said, and as many have noticed, improving the tournament system doesn't seem to be a priority.I found one other: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=34353 which proposes that after a player is booted for being out of time, the remaining players be attributed points "based on the current standing in the match". This suggestion, from 2021, has only one vote (the proposer) and I might not fully understand it. There was a little discussion of this upthread (bottom of page 3 of this thread, posts by RobertBr and Zelva, who noted that it would be unfair to deem the current midgame scores as final, when some players might have deployed strategies that are expected to yield significant points later on in the game).Mathew5000 wrote: ↑18 December 2023, 06:45I couldn't find a suggestion directly on this point, but there are several that are peripherally related:nik592 wrote: ↑23 October 2023, 11:52 4. The ways of awarding placements when a tournament game does not complete needs to be improved. Currently it's based on most time remaining (if the game is allowed to time out), or seniority of account (if someone is booted). Neither of these is any particular indication of who might be more deserving of the win. Time might mean something if the playing hours respected individual timezones. But this one is tricky, as there isn't an easy way to know who is winning at a given point in many games, due to non-linear scoring conditions (which is probably how most games work).