ratings in banded tournies

Ok, here's on the same whiny subject again how higher rated players will enter banded tourneys after a rating drop due to timeouts or a resignation rampage. I'd have two proposals:
1. Before starting the tourneys, purge them again. In the Winter Duel thing for 1000-1199 there are already players over 1200 and it's not even started yet.
2. (and more important) After each round, purge the tourney again. Not with the original rating limits obviously, as of course people can improve it. But you could implement some rule like "If your rating exceeds the rating maximum by more than 250 points, you cannot advance to the next round". The average player will not improve 250 rating points in the time it takes to finish a tournament, the people who do that are usually 1800-players after a rhp-break.
Of course some innocent people who really have improved might suffer... but they can still draw their satisfaction from their improvement 😀 and it would make the system fairer for a lot more people.
What do you think?

In theory I agree with purging the banded tournys before they start, for example the Summer Duel (Southern Hemisphere) 1200-1399 contains at least one user that's not had a rating between those bands for the last 30 days.

However, if they are purged then that decreases the overall number of folk in the torunament, which is a bit naff.

I don't agree with purging once the tournament is underway. People should only leave by being knocked out.

I've said it before, once. There should be 2-3 volunteers as tournament mods. These people respond quickly to complaints of better players joining tournaments below their level. You can propose all the automated ideas you want, but they will all miss and require recoding tournaments.

These tournament mods have the ability to remove players and maybe start/proceed tournaments, which could help in getting second rounds started when the winners are determined, but the entire first round isn't complete. I'd be a tournament mod. 🙂

Totally agree with principle....especially with tournament mods

It should be simple enough to establish whether a player knows he is eligible down to what is actually ethincally correct....and just plain good sportsmanship.....

this should definatley be put to the vote, just as the game mods were...

Originally posted by angie88
Ok, here's on the same whiny subject again how higher rated players will enter banded tourneys after a rating drop due to timeouts or a resignation rampage. I'd have two proposals:
1. Before starting the tourneys, purge them again. In the Winter Duel thing for 1000-1199 there are already players over 1200 and it's not even started yet.
2. (and more import ...[text shortened]... ovement 😀 and it would make the system fairer for a lot more people.
What do you think?

Originally posted by kwgoodwin
I agree with your intended goal. Perhaps another way to reach it is to extended the time frame for "highest rank" from 30 days to 90 or more. That would likely achieve your goal with a lot less effort by the admin. 🙂

Maybe the answer for entering tournaments lies in an avarage ranking of the last 3 or 6 months?

Originally posted by Coconut
I've said it before, once. There should be 2-3 volunteers as tournament mods. These people respond quickly to complaints of better players joining tournaments below their level. You can propose all the automated ideas you want, but they will all miss and require recoding tournaments.

These tournament mods have the ability to remove players and maybe start ...[text shortened]... inners are determined, but the entire first round isn't complete. I'd be a tournament mod. 🙂

Originally posted by gezza
Coconut

If you want to be able to kick people out of tourneys as they start, then you should also be able to put them in the next band up - one arguement for entering the lower band tourney is that "its the only one I am able to enter", so you need to solve that problem too.

And if a provisional player can provide evidence of their expected rating to a tourney mod then they should be allowed to enter banded tourneys ;-)

Gezza

Originally posted by angie88
Ok, here's on the same whiny subject again how higher rated players will enter banded tourneys after a rating drop due to timeouts or a resignation rampage. I'd have two proposals:
1. Before starting the tourneys, purge them again. In the Winter Duel thing for 1000-1199 there are already players over 1200 and it's not even started yet.
2. (and more import ...[text shortened]... ovement 😀 and it would make the system fairer for a lot more people.
What do you think?