In general, there are more tournament places than there are participants. Many tournaments go unfilled and there is usually a long and unpredictable delay in starting.
On top of that, search facilities for tournaments need improvement (e.g. tournament-filter--selection-wizard).
Raising the limit would appear to make the over-supply situation worse not better.
In general, there are more tournament places than there are participants. Many tournaments go unfilled and there is usually a long and unpredictable delay in starting.
On top of that, search facilities for tournaments need improvement (e.g. tournament-filter--selection-wizard).
Raising the limit would appear to make the over-supply situation worse not better.
Well all my tournaments started quick. My 96 player tournament was full in about a week.
The problem is that there are tournaments which do fill fast, however also dozen which will stay with only a few participants for months.
I thought a bit more about it and have a few new suggestions:
1. Let members start with a maximum tournament participation of x. When the member succesfully host a tournament with x players, double the amount of x. This will only allow people who are actually able to get their tournaments to run, to host tournaments with more people.
Also those people can get people into their tournament more easily as a lot of people of your previous tournament are often willing to play in your next tournament aswell.
2. Delete tournaments earlier. A tournament with only 3 players can stay months at page 1020203. If ches.com would implement a rule like tournament cancelletion if the tournament has not atleast 5 players within a week then there would be a lot less chanceless tournaments.
In general, there are more tournament places than there are participants. Many tournaments go unfilled and there is usually a long and unpredictable delay in starting.
On top of that, search facilities for tournaments need improvement (e.g. tournament-filter--selection-wizard).
Raising the limit would appear to make the over-supply situation worse not better.
DanaEileithyia wrote: Well all my tournaments started quick. My 96 player tournament was full in about a week.
The problem is that there are tournaments which do fill fast, however also dozen which will stay with only a few participants for months.
I thought a bit more about it and have a few new suggestions:
1. Let members start with a maximum tournament participation of x. When the member succesfully host a tournament with x players, double the amount of x. This will only allow people who are actually able to get their tournaments to run, to host tournaments with more people.
Also those people can get people into their tournament more easily as a lot of people of your previous tournament are often willing to play in your next tournament aswell.
Tricky for chess.com to administrate - but a great idea in principle.
2. Delete tournaments earlier. A tournament with only 3 players can stay months at page 1020203. If ches.com would implement a rule like tournament cancelletion if the tournament has not atleast 5 players within a week then there would be a lot less chanceless tournaments.
Also sounds eminently sensible.
In general, there are more tournament places than there are participants. Many tournaments go unfilled and there is usually a long and unpredictable delay in starting.
On top of that, search facilities for tournaments need improvement (e.g. tournament-filter--selection-wizard).
Raising the limit would appear to make the over-supply situation worse not better.
DanaEileithyia wrote: Well all my tournaments started quick. My 96 player tournament was full in about a week.
The problem is that there are tournaments which do fill fast, however also dozen which will stay with only a few participants for months.
I thought a bit more about it and have a few new suggestions:
1. Let members start with a maximum tournament participation of x. When the member succesfully host a tournament with x players, double the amount of x. This will only allow people who are actually able to get their tournaments to run, to host tournaments with more people.
Also those people can get people into their tournament more easily as a lot of people of your previous tournament are often willing to play in your next tournament aswell.
Tricky for chess.com to administrate - but a great idea in principle.
2. Delete tournaments earlier. A tournament with only 3 players can stay months at page 1020203. If ches.com would implement a rule like tournament cancelletion if the tournament has not atleast 5 players within a week then there would be a lot less chanceless tournaments.
Also sounds eminently sensible.
The x idea is not so difficult to administer. However as the current system is not build that way, it requires some coding, thus resources and I understand that from that perspective they rather not change it.
So I edited it out of my post, however you was a little to quick with responding. So I edited my post back to it's original to not confuse people in this topic :).
So I edited it out of my post, however you was a little to quick with responding. So I edited my post back to it's original to not confuse people in this topic :).
chess.com are slow to change things (except where they aren't broken! 
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However, it's clear that having variable limits introduces major complications and scope for confusion.
As a platinum member, you are not limited in the number of touneys you can create - though it's more administration for you in running the extra tourneys. chess.com will necessarily cherry-pick and only implement the best and most cost-effective suggestions. (Keep the ideas coming!)
I made a tournament yesterday, which will not start before 8 July. It already has 40 participants and will most likely be full within a few days. If more people are interested in the tournament than the maximum of 100 players I would like it if they could join.
So why is 100 players the limit and why not allow people to have huge tournaments and get as much people to participate in them as possible?
So my suggestion is to allow paid members to host unlimited tournaments.