Just glancing through the list of current tournaments, I couldn't find one currently in progress with more than 12 players ( I didn't check evry single page).  I was looking because I suspected that a hundred player tournament would take forever to fill up. I don't bother entering such tournaments and I think if you want to actually play some tournament games, enter tournaments with fewer places available. So, I'll just add that I'm not impressed to see the 'upcoming' tournaments list so full of silly 100 player tournaments.

so open your tornament and invite freinds. but iam restricted to only 3 tournaments . quite funny .

You can sort the current tournaments list by number of players. There are many pages of 100-player tournaments starting at page 4.

Many 100-player tournaments will take months to fill. I heart Chess, currently with 89 of 100 players registered has somehow almost filled. There was no help from the tournament director who closed his account at the beginning of August.

Some such as the shortest tournament ever 2 be on chess.com will never fill.

Help entry. A member can play in an unlimited number of official tournaments and a single member-created tournament.

Not specifically stated but it has been found that a basic member can join a member-created tournament if they have no active games in any other member-created tournament.

I think it's important that the member in question has been eliminated from the tournament. This was a feature request awhile back -- someone would enter a tournament, finish all their games, and then be barred from entering any other tournament because some people in their first tournament took lots of time to play, or went on vacation. So I think they added a fix for that.

Not eliminated, just no active games.

Look for Kacparov, currently a basic member, in these three tournaments.

Currently registered - http://www.chess.com/tournaments/players.html?id=15331

Currently active and between rounds - http://www.chess.com/tournaments/players.html?id=13075

Currently active and between rounds - http://www.chess.com/tournaments/players.html?id=10923

Sounds like a bug to me :-)

Perhaps it was too complicated to rule that the player was actually eliminated. Let's face it, if the round is not yet finished, there's always some chance that every player who finished in front will withdraw, right?

It might take the entire tournament or most of it since a player is not deemed eliminated until the group he is in has completed all their games.

If players above you in your group, who would normally advance, decide to withdraw then nobody advances.

As well tournament directors cannot advance by removing players who finished higher than them in their group. But if they are advancing, they might remove advancing players with higher ratings in other groups.