Automatic Tournaments for Bad Connections

[Gweny]

:) Many people say it is not good to bar people with bad connections for they can not help this.

 

Is maybe potential solution to this problem to allow this people to play in unclock no host automatic tournaments while they is bar?

[Frosty]

Is it possible that this type of event would never end? No sarcasm intended.

 

Frosty

[mink]

hi Gweny,

 

this sounds like a serious suggestion. However, I think those tourneys will be not successful because even the players with bad connections will become bored by too many other players with bad connections.

 

I already experienced that a player with an obviously slow connection told the others to speed up, as he always promptly played a card when he saw it was his turn, and therefore was not aware that his own connection was slow.

 

I think Frosty is right, it cannot be unclocked, because nobody can predict how long it would take to finish, and there are very few player who would be willing to start playing a tourney without any clue of when it might end.

 

The solution could be a survivor tourney with 0% cut, so that players that do not regain connection are automatically removed from the tourney. But I doubt that players would be happy with frequent av-, which are assigned to both pairs and not only to that pair that caused the delay.

 

I think the following features are needed if you want to run tourneys for the bad connection players:

 

Playing should be allowed to extend into the next round, which maybe result in missing a board.

 

In case of missed boards, the fast pairs and those who waited for a slow pair should be awarded av+ for the missed board, and only the slow pairs should get av-. This should happen all automatically.

 

Players should be automatically kicked out of the tourney if there is no action for 3 minutes.

 

However, I would not recommend that those tourneys should be run without a director. Rather, there should be still a director, but there is no need to deal with subbing (as non-responsive players (and their partners) are autmatically removed) and adjusting hands where the deadline was missed (because the round switch is delayed for the slow tables). Instead, a director should be there for normal director tasks like failure to alert/explain and disciplinary issues.

 

Karl

[Gweny]

Well it do occur to me Total Points tournaments is maybe good alternative for this people since they is manual tournaments.

 

I am so impress with our players response to Udays magical program. Not only is tournaments running smoothly with less subbing but sheer volume of people who is doing it is falling to very low number compare to earlier rates.

 

I think message is send and recvd.