Tournament Director's Unbelievable Abuse Of Power

I played in a tournament and was fortunate enough to advance to Round 2. After awhile I got a blanket message from the TD about how the "Toughest" were moving on to the next level. Not but four hours later I couldn't find the Tournament on my tournament list. Come to find out the TD removed me and four other players officially bound for Round 2. Unbelievable! Here's the link.

http://www.chess.com/tournament/hans-glockenspiel-memorial-cup   

Wow. I didn't know TD's had this power. I'd send a message to staff asking how the hell this is possible.

Guess you were too good for him, you should take that as a compliment. :D

I plan on it, but about 6 months ago something a little similar happened and the chess.com official couldn't seem to do anything about it so that's why I brought it here.

That sucks, and it shouldn't be allowed. It's blatant favoritism, and it cheapens every tournament result. If they have this ability, what other shady things might they be able to do?

It could be hashish's fault. Any good detective would assume so based on profiling

I'd keep pushing for an answer. From your post, and looking at the tournament, it sure looks screwy when a TD can determine his or herself which players are "toughest".

I hope you post any answers you get, although, it's pretty crappy if a staff member doesn't know how or why it's happened, and then doesn't try to find the answer for you.

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AHAHAHA

It's a 1.d4 theme tournament. None of you are tough.

That observation aside, the TD has changed the terms of the tournament after play has begun and should be required to reinstate the removed players. I'm puzzled as to why chess.com allows removals after play has begun.

A Chess.com tournament director can remove any player for any reason, and he/she need not give a reason.

I won't say whether the TD was fair or not, but from the information given, the TD appeared not to violate any rules or standards.

Sometime last year, I was directing a tournament that had progressed to the third round. The advancement parameter was such that two players advance, but one of the Round-3 groups had only three players. I had thought that only one player (half or less the quantity of players of the group) could advance excepting ties. In other words I expected only one player from that group to advance to the final round.

During Round 3, one player was removed from the site; that player wound up in second place. When the group finished all its games, the players who came in first and third place were scheduled for advancement! The player who came in third had scored 0.5 out of 4, yet he was allowed to advance.

After thinking long and hard, I decided to remove the player. My reasons were: 1) He came in third (i.e., last) in a group of three players; 2) Only one player should be allowed to advance from a group of three; 3) Advancing with a score of 0.5/4 would not be fair to players in the other group who had worked hard to achieve better results, yet would not advance.

That is the only time I have removed a player from a tournament, and I did so only after coming up with very good reasons.

Hell guys, the problem is exactly opposite!!

Tournament directors NEED to have the powers to manage players in the ultimate way - without asking the (sometimes lazy) staff. Like judges and chess officials do.

I faced the opposite problem already: As TD I was unable to remove participating cheater from running tournament and adjudicate his ongoing games as losses - a trivial thing. Very frustrating.

@ Whirlwind  I know that the TD's have that power, you used it wisely and maybe you let the player know why. Six or seven months ago me and another guy were removed from a tournament and I was going to advance. I sent the TD three different messages asking what was the reason. No answers were sent. I contacted chess.com and the staff member said he would try and find out. He found out nothing because the TD didn't respond to him either, so that was the end of that.

This time this is out and out favortisem yet as you say chess.com can't do a damn thing. So the best I can do is expose jerks for who they are.

@ Polar Bear  TD's should should have that power but should be required give a reason why when they use it.

Keep pushing them for an answer. There must be a valid reason, not the least you deserve to understand why.

Best troll bait ever !

@waynet: Incessantly continuing to inquire the TD for an answer could eventually lead to accusations of harrassment.

@OP: You have my sympathies. I wish I had something better or more productive to say than that.

@ Stigmatisert      Quote:

"I have never withdrew players for being squemish.

How is games of chess played to be proven guilty of being that?

Did the TD write what he/she based the decision upon?"

Where did that come from?

@ Stigmatisert     Click on the link for the Tournament, that announcement at the top was sent yesterday morning to me (and others) and by noon five of us were booted out of the Tournament. He actually used the  word "fiercest" not "toughest"; I wrote the original post thinking it was the latter.

Either way, the TD created the event as 4->2. Unless you exhibited some nature of poor behaviour, the TD should maintain the event as advertized.