Board Game Arena

https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=78488

Multiplayer elimination:
No body got eliminated from our last round:
Round7 into Round 8.

https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=107313

Will the tournament last forever?

The tournament settings allow the 3 best players to continue and also allows for 3 players matches (so for matches where no-one gets eliminated) ... I don't know if the situation would have arisen would the matches have been restricted to 4 players only...

yeah.

still a bug either way.

We've also been given the exact same pairings.

BGA staff need to amend the settings to either:
* 4p-only games,
* only keeping 2 players per match.

I think as one person quit the tournament, it threw the numbers out so it can't stay in multiples of 4.

Another round started, the same problem, no body got eliminated, we are stuck in a never ending tournament.

https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=107313

By the looks of it,
* Primoclark
* Fromir1
* z_or_a
have all lost 2 out of the last 2 games, and definitely ought to have been eliminated. I'd encourage those 3 players to resign the new games they're now in manually, and then manually all 3 quit the tournament as they would have if the tournament was eliminating people.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated. The tournament has been running for over 1 year. I don't want to be forced into abandoning a tournament and have to take large penalties.

You also know that I won't ever stop moaning about it.

The tournament has been created a long time ago, by then when bracket and stage tournaments were in alpha

There was no safeguard for the configuration set here, "3 players per table", and "keep the first 3 players".

I changed the setting to force 4 players minimum, this should be enough for the tournament to end, in about 3 steps.

It may look like it:



We'll watch the tournament to see if everything goes well.

Draasill wrote: ↑12 January 2023, 17:30
It may look like it:



We'll watch the tournament to see if everything goes well.

But you do realize this is not exactly a good solution for this tournament system, right? Step 10 seems to be ok but step 11... 3 players get a free pass to the final while 4 others have to battle for the last spot? That can't be the best solution. It could be either 1 player getting eliminated at a time which means the tournament drags on for a while but so be it. OR in semi-final it should be allowed to have a 3p table and then make 2 tables where 2 players each qualify for the final

I can't say I fully understand all the permutations and combinations.
But as far as I can tell, 1 person should be eliminated in each game in each round.

With the current 9 players:
3 games of 3 players, 3 (last place) players get eliminated. Now we're down to 6.

Next round:
I guess 2 more tables of 3. 2 (last place) players get eliminated. Now we're down to 4.

Bingo, final round of 4 players.