Board Game Arena

Dutchrooz wrote: ↑20 February 2026, 11:39 Going against the grain here, I actually like the improvements. It's more intituitive. I organise a lot of tournaments for friends that don't have the required ELO and can still do that by sending them the invite link.

Diger74 wrote: ↑19 February 2026, 21:34 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?

NCFCRulz wrote: ↑19 February 2026, 18:23 This is far less user friendly for those setting up tournaments. I used to be able to just tab through everything and easilly amend, now i physically have to click it all. So much more time consuming. Why cant we invite players via a link anymore? Thats a needed feature for those under 100 ELO.

Best part of 6 years since the last decent update to tournaments and as someone that sets up many tournaments this has just made it worse

Didnt you employ someone around 3 years ago specifically to work on tournaments? I understand why you want to push Arena but ultimately thats just a mediocre way to play compared to tournaments if any time would be put in to new features in this area.

Constructive criticism - This is weaker now for setting up tournaments and less clear (what the hell is an encounter?!) Players per match was far clearer, who thought that would be a good idea? Stop pushing Arena and focus on improving tournaments.

Crines wrote: ↑20 February 2026, 09:49 [1] Absolutely obvious that the person/people who developed this dont play tournaments themselves or [2] gathered feedback from those who do. This kind of work would get me fired from my job. Absolutely terrible.