Deanrover Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 When you go to sign up for a tourney, and it is full, you should have the opion to go on a waiting list because 1) Sometimes one pair pulls out, their free space should be allocated to the pair that tried to sign up first, but instead it goes to the pair lucky enough to be in the tournament room at the time 2) Sometimes a TD will decide to increase the limit of a full tourney. Similarly, a waiting is the most equitable way to allocate these seats 3) Roughly 50% of pairs tourneys start off with two sitouts. i) It is most fair to give this to a pair who were first on a waiting listii) The TD will often sub in two complete strangers who have no partnership agreements. Amongst other disadvantages, these two often spent the first two minutes sorting out their system, which is especially bad if they have no common language 4) What happens if a pay tourney is fully booked, but when it starts some of the pairs are not online? Either i) BBO takes their money anyway, in which case they get angry. or ii) We do not take their $, but then we lose out on revenue If we had a waiting list, a simple solution presents itself. + If we feel extra cunning, we take the $ of those who are not online AND the $ of the waiting list players who get in :( :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Dean you the man.. you are on a roll tonight. I love this idea and the one about delaying teammatch starts until registered players finish the hands they are on (in another thread)... Great ideas.. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mink Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Having a waiting list would be nice and has no disadvantages. However, it would only be in effect for tourneys that are full. So not for any club tourneys and not for any payed tourneys as far as I can see. And most of the unrestricted tourneys are not full, too. So this would apply only to a small minority of tourneys. I doubt that this would be worth the programming effort. Karl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 I vote for a waiting list! Even when my tourney's are full and I've released offline pairs, I invariably have sitouts or otherwise lose players. I would much rather give someone the chance to play based on the order they attempted to sign up than to lose the tables or put in subs arbitrarily. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.