Draft plan for weekly events

1. We will have two primary tournaments, on the first Tuesday of the month and the following Saturday.  While the Saturday time schedule may be reviewed, the practice of rotating time slots to cater to different time zones will continue.  The Tuesday event will come after Titled Tuesday, as before.
2. In other weeks, after Titled Tuesday, we will have a minor event.  These will follow the same format (3|1 time control, 10 rounds), although depending on turnout we might reduce the number of rounds.  There will not be weekly events on Saturday.
3. I'm open to suggestions on what to call the major and minor events.
4. If we do recaps for minor events, they should be restricted to analysing one game.  Recaps for major events should be restricted to covering 3-4 games from the two events combined.  This will decrease the workload of writing the recaps and make the turnaround faster.
5. The current leaderboard points system gives 15 points for first, 12 for second, then 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 for 10th place.  I'm thinking of reworking this as follows:
   1. For major tournaments, 30 for first, 25 for 2nd, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for 15th, so 174 points total
   2. For minor tournaments, 10 for first, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for 8th, so 39 points total
   3. This means that the leaderboard points are heavily weighted towards the major events.  As a result, those who can only play one event per month will focus on the major events.
   4. Also, while those who play all the minor events and perform strongly will accumulate a meaningful number of points, it will be the major events that mostly decide the overall title.

I'll work on documentation and setting up spreadsheets to hand off as much as possible of the workload to other people.  I already have several offers of help from people who have experience running tournaments on the site or have other relevant experience.

Great!!!!

why are we having this didn't like 3 fifths of people agree to not having them

3. Call the major tournaments like the usual and the minor tournaments "1st tournament of a series which will most probably not work" and then 2nd and on and on

4. All the more reason to have major tournaments, having many games analysed in the major tournaments like usual makes it more instructive

As LH said, this isn't a democracy 

wasn't MG against having weekly tournaments?

At one point.

Is there any chance of profiting from having these extra events by giving one or two of them each month a slightly longer time control? I'm one of those players who was just about able to play the old 3|2 time control but find 3|1 pretty much impossible to play.

Er ok then 

I honestly preferred 3/2 also 

Okay, its deserved a try. Lets see how many players gonna show up in the minor events. I assume the pro weekly tournament will be there.

In his heart he still is I'm sure

Yes, Amigo, this is not a democracy. But, MG was against having weekly tournaments, oh well... 

Agreed, I like 3|2 better as well. 

If we're doing weekly events, we can consider varying the time control a bit.  I keep flagging even in 3|2, but I do like matching Titled Tuesday's format.

Will previous Untitled Tuesday tournaments be re-weighted to reflect the new changes?

Yes.

I’m hugely in favor of 3|1 time controls even though it means I may never win another tournament. With 3|2, old fogies such as myself could spend 30 seconds or even longer working out tactics and still outplay faster inexperienced players in the endgame. I won’t be able to do that anymore.

But it also makes it much more clear who may be using an engine. And that is far more important.

I’ve seen masters lose R vs R endgames in 3|1, which is ridiculous. But the site is doing a better job of catching the cheats.

3|1 isn’t going away. The more events we have with it, the more normal it will feel.

I stand by my original statement when points were first being discussed for the tour: the system should be simple enough for anyone to follow and work out the points for themselves. 

I understand the desire to have different point systems for different tournaments, but it just makes working out the points very difficult for most people to follow.

And this year looks to be even more competitive than last year! (Unless of course several players "graduate" to the Titled Tuesday ranks.)

On the first point, I'd like to say I love losing against higher rated