[EdmundB]

2nd tournament to TD online.

I see a lot of MP events, usually about 12 boards, so I decided to go contrary, and ran a 24-board; 12-round 7-min per board, delayed 5% cut, swiss yesterday, and, yeah it was long. After about half the tournament elapsed, I noticed a tremendous drop in player problems, possibly because the better players generally play fast.

• boards to be adjudicated. there should be a list available to go through. either let players ask for adjustmens through a mechanism, (ideally consolidating them for us!) or (and?) Better, send all incomplete boards automatically to this list.
  
• option to continue round even if all players are done. two words: powder room.
  
• back to adjustments. I'd like something a little complicated, here goes: for pairing purposes: award A++, at least initially. slow players should not be rewarded with easy opposition. For final results (or cuts), award A--. Even more: if there's an adjudication that could kick a pair out, then a tournament hold occurs until the TD either adjusts score or takes a pass.
  
• if a board is pulled due to lack of time, and a pair takes more than... possibly ... 2/3 of the time on 1st hand of two-board movement, presumtively award A-+, with + going to other pair,
  
• partnership time on each board history. ideally relative to average time taken by that side of table for each board. better, I'd like an easy way to identify players who generally take a lot of time, and then to easily move at least some of them to a certain forward-going list, if my meaning is clear. Don't care to call them enemies; prefer to think of them as "time-challenged" or "connectivity-challenged."
  
• for survivor events: a self-bye-bye option (options: let p get sub, or (for pairs) taking effect at the end of the current round and dismissing partnership) would be nice. If someone wants out (or needs out), fine. and for those pairs/players that "play to time", a directed bye-bye option (again to take place at end of current round). Don't want to ask for sub, let them figure out cause & effect on their own dime.

Yes, this is a VERY non-trivial list, but not asking for "cloak of invisibility" (not such a bad idea, actually), or AI adjudication for complex positions.

[EdmundB]

Never mind.

[EdmundB]

This suggestion would likely be easy to implement:

At the start of a tournament, list the players on the TD's chat.

Whenever a player is subbed for any reason or by anyone, list this message on TD's chat.

At the end of each round, on TD chat, list all players with assigned Ave- (by table), and all players with assigned Ave.

Given this, all of us will be able to adjudicate boards more easily. And some of us could determine who to exclude from future events, based on the data generated. Personally, I'd generate custom software, but that's not necessary.

[tenbrvc]

GREAT idea about "Whenever a player is subbed for any reason or by anyone, list this message on TD's chat."

Do you know if we have this feature yet?

P.S. I can't figure out how to quote from a previous message and reply to that! How do you do it?

[xx1943]

tenbrvc, on Sep 5 2004, 11:24 PM, said:

GREAT idea about "Whenever a player is subbed for any reason or by anyone, list this message on TD's chat."

Do you know if we have this feature yet?

P.S. I can't figure out how to quote from a previous message and reply to that! How do you do it?

Hi
Click on "QUOTE" in the upper right line of the post, u want to quote.

or Copy the words u want to quote and click on the gray button QUOTE between @ and CODE in the box above ur post-editing-window.

Quote

or Copy the words u want to quote and click on the gray button QUOTE between @ and CODE in the box above ur post-editing-window.

You only have to override "UNDEFINED"

Hope my explanation was understandable.

Ciao


Al