Hi BGA community,
I love BGA immensely, however, one of my biggest complain about tournaments is how timeouts are handled, especially in elimination tournaments. When an elimination tournament game ends before it should because a player timed out, the system needs to identify who will make it to next round of the elimination tournament, often generating player frustrations (such as for players in a winning position not making it to next round).
Current state:
As far as I understand, if a game where the best half of the players in an elimination tournament game should go to next round and the game ends with a player timing out, the ones selected for next round are randomly selected amongst non-timed-out players.
Potential solutions:
Thanks for your feedback!
I love BGA immensely, however, one of my biggest complain about tournaments is how timeouts are handled, especially in elimination tournaments. When an elimination tournament game ends before it should because a player timed out, the system needs to identify who will make it to next round of the elimination tournament, often generating player frustrations (such as for players in a winning position not making it to next round).
Current state:
As far as I understand, if a game where the best half of the players in an elimination tournament game should go to next round and the game ends with a player timing out, the ones selected for next round are randomly selected amongst non-timed-out players.
Potential solutions:
- (A) - all non-timed-out players advance to the next round of the elimination tournament, no matter the threshold of how many players should have made it. A drawback would be that losing players in a game would have an incentive to end the game as soon as another player is out of time.
- (B) - rematch for all non-timed-out players. That's potentially the fairest way but that would significantly impact durations of tournaments, which is a serious drawback.
- (C) - randomly select which players will make it to the next round. That's the current state as far as I know.
- (D) - players with the best scores at time of timeout get to the next round. I would avoid such a solution given in many games the last turns may have tremendous impact on final scoring. Plus some game don't have scores (e.g. Rallyman GT).
Thanks for your feedback!