I absolutely agree 

Vacation should be disallowed for tournament games IMHO.

quite annoying when some dingus from my group is on vacation and the games against him is all i have left.        

is this still going on? it says it is, but it also says round one is complete, but it ALSO says there is 1 game left, whats on the go?
its been like 3 months, i tied with someone in my bracket and both of us are moving on or somthing, can we just call a draw for any remaining games and move on with this age old tourny?

 

GL TO ALL! :P

another irritating thing in the tournament. the only game yet to be finished is in between 2 people who will not effect the outcome of the next round - they have no possiility for advancement!

 

sure, let them finish out the game for ranking and placing sake - but do they have to delay our next round? 

good gracious this tournament has been going for a month in the first round! whats the deal here? my bad for three months

FYI:

Quick Knockout Tournaments Start Soon!

 

I'm 7-0 yay!

if anyone is bored, check out the biggest upset in this tournament- dejavu beat me when he was 904 and i was 1085... ^^

 

its awesome... in true bongcloud fashion, i got my king to the other side of the board... except that i lost - it was an awesome game. 

ah. dont worry too much. most of the tournaments arnt like this. im in another one that is moving along quite smoothly.

 

in other news - double advancement in my group. i got tired or waiting for dejavu to whoop me in the second game, so i resigned and we are tied- with tied tiebreakers. woot.

 13 block representing twice the odds of victory?

i dont knowwhy i couldnt get sighned in so i lost alot of games wile i  gone

I can't believe how long it takes for people to move! It should have been 1 or 2 days per move. I literally have people waiting until the last minute to move and by the time it comes my turn again, I have forgotten what my next planned move was.  I don't know if I will ever participate in another tournament again if all of them are like this.

woot. looks like ill be seeing yall in the next round. not very noteworthy though, 3 players in my group timed out, and im looking to win the one guy. this tournaments apathy is apalling.

yes id like to say gl to all, and i also agree i have a guy on vacation and he has a tad over 1 month, so well have to wait that long to move on to our next section. very disturbing.

how is everyone doing

a player in my group as gone on vaction, this seems disturbing that players in a tourney can vacation... how will the tourney come to any conclusion?

Being new to chess tournaments, how is the tie break number determined and is it better for it to be bigger or smaller?

C_Roy asked:

This is going to be fun stuff.  Luck to all!

Anybody know what happens if, during the tournament we exceed the 1000 ranking? Are we exempt? 

Naturally some people will go back above 1000 if they win a game.  It's normally not a big concern since the bracket contains people who are very close in ranking (within 400 pts. of each other).  There isn't a lot of difference in skill level between someone rated 950 and someone 1050.

What the heck is that queen goes to jail comment about? (Also, good luck everyone!)