So tournaments start at 5 pm and a lot of times go until 10 pm or later when there is only 4 or 5 rounds in the tourny. This is because people show up late expecting if they get there at 5:20 pm or something because round 2 hasn't started, they won't be disqualified yet and can start later, extending the round for everyone else. Because some people have work/school on Monday morning, this because very irritating. 10 PM becomes late for me, and im in EST. I can imagine people in european time zones it must be harder on.
My suggestion would be for a admin/mod to post a "check in" thread at 4 PM (an hour before it starts) and have the mod post it every 5 minutes in chat so people have no excuse not to post in it. By 5 pm anyone who has not posted in the thread, will be disqualified as soon as the tournament starts and marked as a loss against their opponent.
This would make it go by faster, and make it a whole lot less stressful for most of us who have other things to do besides wait for people who do not get on in time and slow it down.
*EDIT: I have seen the new rule saying you must be there by 5:30 or you are DQ, however I do not think this fixes the issue. The issue is people are coming at 5:20 as it is and making it longer, and will still do so with new rule. I suggest this be added in addition to that rule, and make the 30 minute rule only for people who checked in.
My suggestion would be for a admin/mod to post a "check in" thread at 4 PM (an hour before it starts) and have the mod post it every 5 minutes in chat so people have no excuse not to post in it. By 5 pm anyone who has not posted in the thread, will be disqualified as soon as the tournament starts and marked as a loss against their opponent.
This would make it go by faster, and make it a whole lot less stressful for most of us who have other things to do besides wait for people who do not get on in time and slow it down.
*EDIT: I have seen the new rule saying you must be there by 5:30 or you are DQ, however I do not think this fixes the issue. The issue is people are coming at 5:20 as it is and making it longer, and will still do so with new rule. I suggest this be added in addition to that rule, and make the 30 minute rule only for people who checked in.
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