Smarter Banded Tourneys

I've never gotten out of a single round in any kind of tournament. Not even a banded one. One particular tournament woke me up to a problem. In the first round of a banded tournament, I was in a "foursome" and every one of the other players either was....or was recently, several hundred points higher.

I would have even won this years Automn 1300-1399...coming in second to a guy who is now rated over 1600. He WAS rated over 1600 before timing out more than 25 games.

I'm usually in the 1300's....but I have at times cracked into the 1500s (and then get smakced right back down). BUT, my rating falls because I play and LOOSE...not becuase I time out or resign a bunch of games.

The "30 day window" is not enough to weed these guys out.

Lee

Originally posted by nonnymoose
I've never gotten out of a single round in any kind of tournament. Not even a banded one. One particular tournament woke me up to a problem. In the first round of a banded tournament, I was in a "foursome" and every one of the other players either was....or was recently, several hundred points higher.

I would have even won this years Automn 1300- ...[text shortened]... r resign a bunch of games.

The "30 day window" is not enough to weed these guys out.

Lee

And / or an average rating...

Originally posted by Aiko
And / or an average rating...

Originally posted by nonnymoose
Or an appeal process....such that if one of these "sand baggers" wins their victory is stripped from them.

Lee

thumping a deceased Equss Caballus

Originally posted by rhb
That'd cause bigger fights than the game mod process.

How about tournament moderators? A couple people who go through tournaments and look at people's rating graph to see what they're rating history is. I'll volunteer to be one if nobody else wants to (yes I know I'm unsubscribed but I should have it back within a couple days).

What we need is more threads about this.

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
What we need is more threads about this.