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Hi,

Reposting this here because I was not sure which was the right forum to post it under. On which note, is it possible to link/cross-reference posts in the different forums?

Thanks.
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I would like the ability to create and play in Round Robin Tournaments where the play is sequential or can be limited to two or three parallel games. Basically, I like to have everyone play everyone else, but I don't like the fact that one gets dumped into all the games at once.

So why not just create a Swiss System tournament with as many games as players, you may be wondering. A few reasons:
1. Because of the Swiss system rules which determine who you play with on rounds after the first one, after a game, one has to wait until *all* the games have ended before anyone can proceed to the next round, instead of being matched up with the next available player that one has not already played with.

2. Again, the Swiss system rules are not very transparent to me, but I recently encountered the situation where a certain number of games were planned, but the tournament ended in fewer games, ostensibly because the system had already determined the winners. So everyone did not play everyone else.

3. You certainly cannot set up Swiss system with (a small number of) parallel games


So, if one of you kindly souls maintaining this site had the time to implement something like this, I for one would greatly appreciate it.
(And if not, I greatly appreciate your maintaining the site anyway. )

Greatly agree on the thought here. I have an interest in running RR tournaments as well but do not like 20 simultaneous games especially as I tend to favor ones where it is easy to mix up my overall strategy between two similar looking board layouts.

Right now the only way I can do round robin tournaments that do not spam the games at once are to stagger them the maximum duration of each match and have to set each start date individually. Instead, I would like to be able to set them to start once every 12 hours, every day, or every two days but the players have a full 5-7 days total time to complete the match. This will allow some matches to overlap but the faster moving ones to be done before another starts. Or at least games to be different degrees of finished.