Tournament moderators

Come on guys, let's set up tournament moderators. Pass the burden of setting up tournaments to people who want to set up exciting tournaments. ALL official tournaments have arbiters. Moderators could keep the banded tournaments banded, they could sort out the Tournaments overview, removing all the cheats. We would no longer have to complain about lack of tournaments, or have to pester you to start this tournament or that. It's a win - win situation!!

I still like this idea.

I would still like to see a new rating system employed to check tournament eligibility, but this would do.

Originally posted by Crowley
I still like this idea.

I would still like to see a new rating system employed to check tournament eligibility, but this would do.

Banded tournaments need common sense. We all know when someone should be in a band and when they shouldn't...

Originally posted by marinakatomb
Banded tournaments need common sense. We all know when someone should be in a band and when they shouldn't...

You can't see a person's whole graph.
If the mods could have a tool like that, sure, but I still believe a banded tournament rating calculation should be done instead of the 30 day high.

Originally posted by Crowley
You can't see a person's whole graph.
If the mods could have a tool like that, sure, but I still believe a banded tournament rating calculation should be done instead of the 30 day high.

In an ideal World you are right, but how would that be created? It's been brought up before and no one can come up with a calculation (at least i've never seen anyone....)

Originally posted by marinakatomb
In an ideal World you are right, but how would that be created? It's been brought up before and no one can come up with a calculation (at least i've never seen anyone....)

At one stage I worked on an excel spreadsheet. I'll see if I've still got it...

Originally posted by marinakatomb
In an ideal World you are right, but how would that be created? It's been brought up before and no one can come up with a calculation (at least i've never seen anyone....)

keep it simple: an all-time high.

you can't enter a banded tourny if your all time high is 100 points or more above the top of the band.

problem solved.

(well i suppose you still have the problem of people who are new to the site and whose ratings are still on the way up. most common problem solved though.)

Originally posted by murrow
keep it simple: an all-time high.

you can't enter a banded tourny if your all time high is 100 points or more above the top of the band.

problem solved.

(well i suppose you still have the problem of people who are new to the site and whose ratings are still on the way up. most common problem solved though.)

Not even close, in my opinion...

Originally posted by Crowley
Not even close, in my opinion...

how come?

surely this would have prevented all the people who notoriously have entered tournaments in a band well below their ability just to lift a title...?

it would be very simple to implement too.

Originally posted by murrow
how come?

surely this would have prevented all the people who notoriously have entered tournaments in a band well below their ability just to lift a title...?

it would be very simple to implement too.

It's too simplistic surely. There are people who could be unfairly excluded from a band as a result.

I'd imagine a good proportion of genuine 1,000 players will have non-provisional highs of around 1,200. Plus it's not that uncommon to see spikes of a couple of high rating scoring wins, though timeouts perhaps, where a player can rise well above normal.

The 100 point idea would prevent some players entering suitable bands on a permanent basis.

Originally posted by Peakite
It's too simplistic surely. There are people who could be unfairly excluded from a band as a result.

I'd imagine a good proportion of genuine 1,000 players will have non-provisional highs of around 1,200. Plus it's not that uncommon to see spikes of a couple of high rating scoring wins, though timeouts perhaps, where a player can rise well above normal.

The 100 point idea would prevent some players entering suitable bands on a permanent basis.

okay 200 then.

simple was the idea.

I thought that perhaps it would be possible to have an average of three ratings.

Current rating + Highest in last 30 days + Highest ever / 3

So, for me it would be...

1803 + 1833 + 1866 /3 = 1834

This doesn't really change much though as the result is almost idential to my 30 day high. No, in my opinion the only way to resolve this properly is to have a human being using common sense! If a 2000 rated player returns from a break after 300 timeouts, they should be removed from 1200 banded tournies! A person can spot these people easily, it's the only way!

Originally posted by marinakatomb
No, in my opinion the only way to resolve this properly is to have a human being using common sense!

Ok. This has been mentioned before.

You seem keen, and if it were possible for Russ to tweak the site so that you could bump people up (or down) a few groups before the tourney starts, then fine, I'd support it for a 3 month trial.

The trouble is that everyone who plays in tourneys has paid membership, so if you p*** people off, it hits the site financially. I think this needs more than just willingness to do the work - e.g. who is liable if your password is pinched and alot of people get kicked out of tourneys?

I think that tweaking the site to give a very few people extra access rights is likely to be a lot of work, and there are a few more important tournament fixes (like the under 6 games p1200 being allowed bug), so alot depends on the site maintainers.

So Rec'd in principle, depending on if and when Russ has time to do the work,
Gezza

Originally posted by marinakatomb
Come on guys, let's set up tournament moderators. Pass the burden of setting up tournaments to people who want to set up exciting tournaments. ALL official tournaments have arbiters. Moderators could keep the banded tournaments banded, they could sort out the Tournaments overview, removing all the cheats. We would no longer have to complain about lack o ...[text shortened]... rnaments, or have to pester you to start this tournament or that. It's a win - win situation!!

nice job coming up with an idea on your own and getting 7 recs for it. Holy crap.

Originally posted by Coconut
nice job coming up with an idea on your own and getting 7 recs for it. Holy crap.

It's just that nobody likes you.