I have a suggestion!  Let's have an official Chess.com tournament that isn't segregated by ratings!  It would be a huge tournament with many leaderboard points available, since anyone from complete beginners to Grandmasters could join.  It would have to be set up so not too many simultaneous games begin at the same time, so that more people would be willing to join (many people, such as myself and IM David Preuss, try to keep from having too many simultaneous games), preferably no more than the typical 8 (I see that some of the newer site tournaments start 10 simultaneous games; I think this tournament would be more popular if fewer games started at the same time).

It would be HUGE!!!

This is an interesting suggestion. Thank you! We may decide to do this for some future Chess.com tournaments.

It is an interesting suggestion, but I think it would turn into a higher level only tournament.  The lower rated people are going to end up being paired with someone they have virtually little chance of actually beating.  And I understand that you should play someone who is rated higher than you, but 50-100 pts, not the possible 300-500 this would set up at first.

it is an idea.

That is an idea that would last for 2 years. Do you know how long would it take to finish that monstrous tournament? If there is no vacation time and 1 day/move, then maybe.

I like to play more simultaneous games with longer time control. I prefer 10 or 14 days is better. As I am a student, I have a hard time to make a move 1 or 3 days per move especially when I have an exam. Most of the tournament I didn't join because of that. Don't judge me I am currently playing 3 days per move tournament. This is because I join the tournament before my school was reopened. I will never accept to play 1 or 3 days per move if I am still in college. It is really hard to keep it.

For you, but more people would agree to play faster. 14 days/move 1000+ people tournament would last for 5 years.

Taking 5 years to finish the game is better than players lose on time and lost all of his/her game.

I'm also a college student, so  I can relate to chess_cake, but I try to limit the amount of time I spend on chess during the school year by limiting my number of simultaneous games rather than by choosing longer time controls.  Of course Bruiser419 and streptomicin are right about the mismatched pairings and the fact that this tournament would last a long time, but if people didn't want to play in such a tournament they could just choose not to join.  There are already many smaller "open" tournaments being started by individual members where people of all ratings can join and mismatched pairings are common, but these tournaments are popular anyway.  In fact, some players seem to prefer this type of free-for-all!  The First Chess.com Open would only be the largest tournament of this genre, and also the first official site tournament of this genre.

Id rather play one day and have you use some vacation during exams. If everyone plays slow, the tourney drags out, if two people play slow, no big deal.