Team Match Auto pair

a few months ago I wrote to support and told them about how ineffective the Team Match auto pair system is. Someone got back to me and told me that a follow up will be made but none was done. 

The auto pair system tends to pair some games despite a clear difference in the match parameters set. Also why was a restriction put up on the number of open Matches an admin can create at a time?

The restriction was put in place because some people were flooding the system with dozens of challenges.

Can you explain the first part of your post Iusungu? What exactly are the issues with the auto pair, but I'm a new admin.

When I submit an open Team Match, there is a system that automatically pairs you to another open Team Match if it thinks the two are the right fit. Problem is the system tends to pair matches despite a clear difference in Match parameters 

Presumably it's a delicate balancing act between waiting for an opposing team to issue a similar open challenge with similar parameters on the one hand, and pairing your team within a reasonable time scale on the other hand.

Perhaps there should be a way of indicating in your challenge how long you're prepared to wait for a really suitable match?

Not sure about that flooding tournament nonsense...

We are limited to 5 tourneys OPEN for our entire club....  it should be 5 OPEN matches per admin in each club (at least).  That is crazy!!!  Thank you  

At least 3  

Right yeh, I have only tried to match clubs one by one

The current limit might be too low, but there were incidents of people creating several dozen or even a hundred duplicate challenges and making it impossible for anyone to meaningfully use open challenges.

That said, if you're trying to recruit for five tournament matches simultaneously, you're probably overburdening your members and spreading out your recruitment across multiple matches; if you cut the number down, you might find that recruitment was better in the tournaments you do play.  For example, to toss out some random numbers, instead of five matches with 20 players each, you might have 2 matches with 30-35 players each.

No, what was happening is...  I tried to do 3 tourneys called 200 point gaps

1000-1200

1200-1400

1400-1600

and on the 3rd one it said we were maxed...   bc 2 other admins had 3 tourneys currently open... so, that’s how I found out.  I thought bc we were small club (450) it was bc of that.  I figured bigger clubs got say 10 or more even.  I didn’t know until this post, so thank you for that 🙏👍🏻🙂

Crazy you can’t have a week wait to sign up... that takes a tourney spot away 

That is weird, maybe they are trying to get people to finish their games faster.

No wonder there are hardly any under 1300 tourneys!

I hear ya 

Yeah, the limit could probably be bumped up to 10 without it causing too much of a problem.  I'll suggest an increase.

But if you have admins creating matches you don't know about, it sounds like your team matches are pretty disorganised and you're going to find yourself attempting to recruit for a large number of matches.  You would do well to have your admin team a little better coordinated and communicating with each other so everyone knows what everyone else is doing.

Yeah but it's a pretty busy club. If I had admins making matches under me I would expect them to recruit for their own matches they create

You can play more than 5. You can play as many as you want. You just can't have more than 5 open seeks at a time. 

As people accept your seeks, you can put out new ones. Or you can send direct club challenges. 

Happy to help. I found it really inconveniencing and I wanted to know how others feel about it!

We need more than 5 seeks at a time. There are times when I want to create multiple games with different parameters all at once and this restriction restricts me.

They are planning to increase it to 10, but there are a number of issues ahead of it in the queue, so it may be a few weeks.