Board Game Arena

I invited a new friend to play a game. Then I found myself in a mode where I HAD to invite friends in order to start a game. I figured out how to get out of that, but now I can't start a normal game, with ratings and time limits.

Every game I create is i "friendly mode". How can I fix this?

Set things to manual. Go to make a game. Then adjust the game mode from friendly to normal. Note this won’t work for alpha games.