What happens in a multi-round tournament if (for example) everybody from one round advances to the next round, because of tiebreaks? Is there a fixed number of rounds depending on the initial variables? This is currently happening in the tournament Englund Gambit Open. It is listed as 94% completed even though the previous round didn't eliminate anybody. http://www.chess.com/tournament/englund-gambit---open

perhaps they have a sudden death play? lol

I wonder how the server code handles this situation.

One question is whether it is better or worse to keep the same groups in your case. Perhaps a change of opponents would eliminate some people. Or perhaps keeping the same opponents would allow a player to find a winning deviation from the prior game.

or perhaps we will get bored playing the same opening theme against the same player again and again

Yes PerfectGent. Can't we all win the tournament 1st place?

Given the % done value, I suspect that this is the last round. I have no idea how the code handles this, to assign first place - I guess it is based on points you get in the last round? I hope it doesn't use tiebreakers too literally since one of the groups has 3 people and one has 2.

Any word from the staff on this one?

Don't know but eager to see the comments.

Hey! They changed something. Now the tournament is listed as 78% complete! I guess we found a bug?

The extreme case would be a multi-round tournament of a themed tournament (f3 e5 g4). Or, a multi-round tournament of tic-tac-toe.

may i participate in the tic-tac-toe tournament? how do I sign up?  this is tremendous news

Seems like Big news, The code must be experiesing trouble (???)