Board Game Arena

What is the deal with 'Real-Time' Tournaments? I registered for a tournament not noticing it was a 'Real-Time' variety. Participated in many 'turn-based' and thought they were all Turn-Based. So, my bad, I'll be more careful in the future.

So long story short, I work up today having missed 12 (of 13) tournament games and with my karma trashed (100% to 30%).

BGA helpfully is displaying a banner reminding me that I'm "participating in a real-time tournament -- please stay logged in to complete your games".

BUT I"VE BEEN LOGGED IN NOW FOR 8 HOURS AND IT"S STILL WARNING ME NOT TO LOG OUT???? I will need to sleep eventually....

Is this really how it's supposed to work? Why does anyone ever signup for a Real-Time Tournament? (Other than by mistake)

And btw -- there's no log of exactly what happened in my game history or my notification history. So I can't tell exactly what really happened or when.
My Karma's trashed. And I may need to stay logged in forever now to avoid more karma damage.

Sigh, please find a way to help avoid others having this problem... Something needs to change about how real-time tournaments function. Or they need to be removed -- this is way too much hassle for something that should be fun

https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=60361

Oh wow, hardly any of the games even started, and the last set seems to have glitched and is in limbo.

You can ignore the banner, you'll be stuck with it for quite a while based on other real time tournaments that have never finished.

https://boardgamearena.com/tournamentli ... ltime=true

I believe there's some turn based tournaments that have that somehow get that treatment as well, but there's no way way to find them.

If you do sign up for real time again, it is safest to do with a Swiss system, you'll only have one karma hit if you end up not showing.
I'm not sure with elimination, I think there's a chance you might get multiple karma hits there (if your first opponent also doesn't show, one is randomly selected to advance)

Based on the tournaments in that list, this is a problem with round robin in real time.
(The only one listed there that is not round robin and stuck is an elimination that has games scheduled a year after it started)

I'm trying to delete this tournement but it seems is stuck.
I tryed to contact support but still no answer.

https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=60361

Somebody can tell me how to delete or unstuck it?

Also have to do too much waiting around for missing players.

There should be a way to schedule games for a different day each player agrees on. In round robin it doesn't matter the order games are played in, so why not?

edited: I submitted this suggestion. What will come of it?

Cheery Dog wrote: ↑02 October 2020, 01:36 Based on the tournaments in that list, this is a problem with round robin in real time.
(The only one listed there that is not round robin and stuck is an elimination that has games scheduled a year after it started)

Another round robin in real time, stuck on last turn to.
Who I can report this?
I tryied to send a message, but had no answer

Cheery Dog wrote: ↑02 October 2020, 01:30 You can ignore the banner, you'll be stuck with it for quite a while based on other real time tournaments that have never finished.

https://boardgamearena.com/tournamentli ... ltime=true

I believe there's some turn based tournaments that have that somehow get that treatment as well, but there's no way way to find them.

If you do sign up for real time again, it is safest to do with a Swiss system, you'll only have one karma hit if you end up not showing.
I'm not sure with elimination, I think there's a chance you might get multiple karma hits there (if your first opponent also doesn't show, one is randomly selected to advance)

Anybody know any secrets for how to make that banner go away?

Everyone go "thumb-up" all the bugs submitted for this!

And maybe keep submitting new bugs every time it happens.

Gotta get their attention somehow.