Too many groups for tourneys

  

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George Jempty    (2025-12-04)
Too many groups for tourneys

The very highest groups take forever to fill up. I think the low bound for the higher groups, rapid or standard, should be 2300.


Scott Ligon    (2025-12-04 18:31:57)
Too many groups for tourneys

I agree, though I may be biased. My rating has never been high enough to get into the 2400+ tourneys, and currently isn't high enough for 2350+, unless maybe I could get a ticket once it fills up most of the way, or however that works. Seems like there just aren't enough active players at those rating levels. Interestingly, I noticed that two of the four players currently signed up for the 2400+ Rapid have never played a game on this site.

I wonder if there were more players a long time ago when the current tournament structures were set up, so those tourneys were getting filled regularly. But over the past few years the fields have thinned.


George Jempty    (2025-12-04 21:54:41)
Too many groups for tourneys

Yeah I'm a little biased too. I'm probably headed to 2250+ in the next couple of cycles and therefore too might be able to get a ticket into the 2300 tourneys, though I highly doubt I'll ever reach 2300.


Garvin Gray    (2025-12-09 18:40:17)
Too many groups for tourneys

The issue is not so much with rating bands, it is difference in ratings of the groups.

400 points in the groups is ridiculous. A 2500 player is not going to be the first to join a group when they know that a 2150 can also join that same group.

But once again, just like a lot of issues on this site, I have brought these issues to Thibault attention, some changes have been made, but the main issue of what you see now still remains.

Just like the rest of the issues that have been discussed, if Thibault does not agree, discussing the issue is a waste of your time.


George Jempty    (2025-12-09 18:49:13)
Too many groups for tourneys

a) I agree about the rating bands and b) I wouldn't be so harsh about Thib, he maintains this site by himself


George Jempty    (2025-12-10 00:40:04)
Too many groups for tourneys

So from the sidebar there are only 30 active players rated 2306 and above. Something clearly needs to be done. My idea of one group 2300+ might work as might additonally allow 2250+ players in under certain conditions. Maybe there could also be a 2400+ for those elite players who would prefer to play other such elite plaers.


Garvin Gray    (2025-12-10 01:59:32)
Too many groups for tourneys

I am not being harsh on Thibault at all. I am just stating a fact in regards to these discussions. For there to be progress, the site owner has to be willing to embrace the suggestions.

Without this, the conversations are just that.

I guess I am just burnt out and scarred. Having been through too many of these same discussions over the many, many years and they all end up in the same place. The rubbish bin.

And it does not have to be this way. It is true that Thibault does run this site on his own, but he could appoint three moderators or other such people to handle these decisions.


George Jempty    (2025-12-10 21:02:50)
Too many groups for tourneys

Well then there is the implementing of those decisions as well, and I have 25 years experience as a web developer, and have offered my assistance lately, but nothing has come of it. I think the decisions themselves are however Thib's purview