Following tables show participation in automatic site wide tournaments (AST) during the day in a week in April 2021.
The following tournaments Live 9x9 Double Elimination Tournament, Blitz 13x13 Swiss Tournament, Live 19x19 Swiss Tournament and Blitz 19x19 Elimination Tournament start every four hours:
The numbers in the first column refer to the day & date.
The numbers in the other columns represent the number of participants.
For convenience sake (to avoid having to use a horizontal slide bar) I divided the day in 4 parts:
NIGHT: 0:00-6:00
D
0:30
1:30
2:30
3:30
4:30
5:30
MON 19
-*
-
6
-
-
4
TUE 20
-
8
5
-
-
-
WED 21
-
4
8
-
-
-
THU 22
6
4
5
6
-
-
FRI 23
-
-
4
-
-
4
SAT 24
-
5
5
-
7
-
SUN 25
-
-
6
-
-
-
Type
19L
19B
9L
13B
19L
19B
The - means that a tournament didn’t take place. There either weren’t enough participants or there were no participants at all (although I think that the last doesn’t happen very often).
MORNING: 6:00-12:00
D
6:30
7:30
8:30
9:30
10:30
11:30
MON 19
4
-
-
-
7
-
TUE 20
-
-
-
-
-
-
WED 21
6
-
6
-
6
6
THU 22
-
-
-
-
8
-
FRI 23
7
-
-
-
4
-
SAT 24
-
-
-
-
-
-
SUN 25
-
-
-
-
4
-
Type
9L
13B
19L
19B
9L
13B
AFTERNOON: 12:00-18:00
D
12:30
13:30
14:30
15:30
16:30
17:30
MON 19
-
4
7
6
6
9
TUE 20
-
-
8
-
-
6
WED 21
-
6
8
-
-
4
THU 22
-
5
5
-
11
-
FRI 23
-
4
6
-
-
4
SAT 24
-
-
-
-
-
-
SUN 25
-
5
4
-
-
10
Type
19L
19B
9L
13B
19L
19B
EVENING: 18:00-0:00
D
18:30
19:30
20:30
21:30
22:30
23:30
MON 19
10
-
-
-
7
-
TUE 20
18
-
-
-
6
-
WED 21
17
-
-
-
4
-
THU 22
5
-
-
4
5
-
FRI 23
9
-
-
8
8
-
SAT 24
-
-
-
-
-
-
SUN 25
8
-
-
-
8
-
Type
9L
13B
19L
19B
9L
13B
Conclusion & discussion
9x9 live is by far the most popular AST (hardly ever cancelled).
weekend AST are less popular than during the week.
why are there is no Blitz 9x9 and Live 13x13 ASTs?
for every AST that does take place there are two ASTs that don’t taken place.
the bigger the board size the less enthusiasm for the AST.
This following 9x9 AST started at 18:30 (presumably Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
In my time zone (second column) that meant it started at 8:30 PM / 20:30).
I think so but am not 100% sure about it (don’t know what the founding fathers and mothers had in mind when setting this up).
Maybe there is a mod who knows what the time reference is?
I’m no expert but I thought all fine references on OGS were set to your local (machine) time except for the shoot page that shows the server time so you can with it when weekend starts.
Well for one the live tournament setting is Swiss, so not only will it take longer than the Blitz tournaments and smaller board ones by definition, who even knows how many rounds there will be ? There’s discussion in another thread.
Blitz 19x19 would be expected to be more popular, by comparison
It’s faster than live
It’s elimination so you play till you get knocked out, and you roughly guess how many rounds are left.
9x9 and 13x13 will be shorter too just because of the board size, but again even though there’s a 13x13 Blitz, it’s still Swiss… so while the games will be shorter than 19x19, how many hours of games are you signing up to?
In general how many hours of games are you signing up to with 13x13 Blitz Swiss or 19x19 live Swiss? Is it somewhat inconvenient to have your next round start randomly when the other games are finished? Wouldn’t it be better to just use automatch or a custom challenge where you have more control?
I think not knowing the answers to these questions just put me off the Swiss format altogether for ASTs, also possibly not getting a break between games if I’m the slowest player.
