why are there tournaments w/o increment

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Begbie1860

I don't understand why on hell there are tourneys without increment on a "modern" chess forum, we want to play chess and the better player should win, so please stop the tourneys when someone can win with a rook less

notmtwain
Begbie1860 wrote:

I don't understand why on hell there are tourneys without increment on a "modern" chess forum, we want to play chess and the better player should win, so please stop the tourneys when someone can win with a rook less

When you say "we",  are you speaking for the other 30 million players here?

When chess.com CEO looked at the popularity of the various time controls, those with increment ranked at the bottom of the list.