why can’t I play tournaments?


I also cannot play in tournaments. I suspect it is because I would leave tournaments before completion. How do I rectify this?

So you click Play>Tournaments, and you don't see the following screen, or you just don't see the Join button?
Upcoming Live Tournaments
Name | Players | Starts | |
---|---|---|---|
3|2 Blitz Arena | 48 | Started | Join |
1|0 Bullet Arena | 6 | 5 min | Join |
3|0 Crazyhouse Swiss | 4 | 5 min | Join |
10|0 Blitz Arena | 3 | 15 min | Join |
30|0 Rapid Quad Swiss |

And as usual, the one thing I wanted to make sure got pasted, didn't. Sorry about that folks, the original had a Join column to the right. Or maybe it's my rubbish computer skills...

as minimum 5 daily chess games ?
Good catch, Cuires. I assumed the OP wanted Live tournaments since he doesn't have any Daily games. I'm often wrong...