Should we do a tournament?

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I’ve noticed that the chess subforum seems to have had a noticeable uptick in activity recently and it got me wondering whether a tournament might be something we’d enjoy doing. Consider this a test of interest, I figure we’d need like, 8 people at least to make it work?

Use this thread to say if you’d be interested and if you have any preferences about tournament format (round robin, head-to-head knockouts à la pogchamps, etc)

Those interested:
1. Me
2. Datisi
3. IV
4. Clidd
5. Umlaut
6. Gypyx
7. Dannflor

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I was personally thinking single round robin might be a good balance between simplicity, all-play-all, and time commitment.

I wonder if we could then combine that with IV’s suggestion of a top 4 play-off series based on that, maybe in the form of a best of 3 where the player with the higher score gets to play white twice? And then moving to sudden death if the score is tied after three games.

We have 7 players tentatively now, I’ll give it another couple and then we’ll see what numbers are like. Might wanna keep it to 8 and then have others sign up to sub in in the case of someone flaming out (I know it’s not exactly fair but at least it guarantees the tournament finishes?) although I guess the alternative is that if someone flakes they just auto-lose all their remaining games?

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Datisi rn:

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I would probably rather not play more than 1 game at a time, but maybe I could work with 2

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and that if a player forfeits two games in this manner then they are removed from the tournament and none of their games are counted in anyone's score. This ensures players aren't punished for having lost earlier on to someone who later flakes.

Doesn’t this end up punishing players who beat someone who flaked though?

But in principle I like the sound of the rest

I also like the sound of a semi-live tournament tho, so interested to hear where everyone else’s heads are at!

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I believe we have 8 players as things stand

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I like it! And am still interested, just waiting for others to chip in

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I guess I may PM the /ins in case they’re not actually watching the thread lol

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ooh, I just saw that umlaut pinged me! I can run it if you'd rather not, but overall you seem to have been by far the most on top of this and I think that if you're willing and able it would probably all go smoother if you're in charge

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Yes, I’m happy to do that!