Any suggestions for S2?

Hi all.

We have made a poll saying what new updates we should have and we decided to add some final questions for the season!

1. Do you want to have the new variants (BH+4PC) in the regular phase with 6 weeks, then individual playoffs? or the regular phase completed in individual variants then 4PC and BH are the playoffs phase? or keep it the same way as S1?
2. What time controls would you like to change? (for both phases)

Thanks! I hope you you can answer these down below and place your questions...

More details will follow!

4PC is just a really terrible variant that's not fun to play. Please don't do that, guys.

BH and 4PC should be totally separate. Do those for the offseason or something. Keep the normal season with the 4 variants and i think the time controls should be changed to 2 games of 1 min, 2 games of 3min and 2games of 5 min or 3/2. 

Okay so you guys don't want BH?

Ok I will note down the other stuff too!

not with the regular season

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Mobile users can't play 4PC.

I will like to see BH though.

+1.

Here are my suggestions:

The 6-week regular season should be compromised of chess.com's four individual variants, as well as the two-most voted "favorite" variants in the final two weeks. The playoffs should feature three weeks of team(partner) variants: Bughouse, 4-player chess, and Hand&Brain Chess.

Also, the game demand for each week should only be two games of 3/0, as this is chess.com's default time control for variants. As some variants offer a greater advantage to a certain side, each player should play one game with the white pieces and one game with the black pieces.   

Thanks for the response. 

I have a Question tho... how can we do hand and brain with no one cheating?

Um, have the players attend a Zoom meeting? I mean, if you use it for the finals only, it can't be too hard to manage. 

the only variants with considerable advantage (that chess.com has implemented) for one side are Crazyhouse and 3-check. But no one knows enough theory in order to exploit that.

Determining the playoff participants by zhouse, koth, fr and 3-check but then playing the playoffs with team variants is a bad idea.

Also: I personally really don't like team variants because they depend much more on luck rather than skill.

I respect your opinion, but could you please elaborate on why exactly this is a bad idea? 

The skills needed in order to qualify for the playoffs aren't needed in the playoffs. The playoffs need to be played with the same variants as the regular season.

Okay, yeah. That's a legitimate point. 

BH depends on the team work skill not on luck but I agree their should be a variant only for playoffs.

Brain And Hand. How will you control cheating. If you will make it complicated then new members will not participate.

I have a good idea for season 2

Write the championship news post for season 1