agreed.
Tomorrow's tournament should not be an arena.
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this also limits the chances for lower intermediates due to the competition, etc.
I agree, sadly, i couldn't play today, and i feel that an Arena isn't the fairest way to qualify.
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little_guinea_pig wrote:
Did we do an arena today? I agree it should be a swiss.
It was a swiss
It doesn't look like the format will change, though
agree, should be a swiss or round-robin
Thanks for sharing your opinion
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ricorat wrote:
little_guinea_pig wrote:
Did we do an arena today? I agree it should be a swiss.
It was a swiss
Was it? Swiss was meant to face your rated players in that area and I never did, only once. 
Bestunknownplayer wrote:
ricorat wrote:
little_guinea_pig wrote:
Did we do an arena today? I agree it should be a swiss.
It was a swiss
Was it? Swiss was meant to face your rated players in that area and I never did, only once.
No, it isn't. That is only true for the first round (https://support.chess.com/article/758-what-is-a-swiss-tournament)
Winning an Arena tournament all depends on luck (such as getting players who resign in a losing position). There is also the issue of stalling at the end of arenas.
Arenas don't work well for tournaments with less than, say, 50 players. Players who joined a few seconds late will take forever to get a matchup.
Also, winning streaks should not give you extra points. Why should a player whose first three games were WWL get more points than a player who went WLW?
An arena should not determine the winners of a qualification tournament.