Looks to me like:
- Changing site-wide ladders would need a larger conversation
- The 7d timeframe is the preferred one for tournaments to default to (although it’s close to 50/50)
As a result, I’m inclined to go with my previous plan.
- DO NOT change site-wide ladders
- Allow a group to configure its ladder time controls (but default to the same as site-wide ladders, as now)
- DO NOT change the default time controls for tournaments in a group (DO NOT tie them to the group’s ladder time controls)
I think this plan will be easy to implement and won’t annoy anyone.
The only downside I see is that tournament organizers in time-control-opinionated groups (such as fast correspondence) still need to set time controls every time they create a new tournament. However, the clone tournament feature allows tournament organizers to avoid creating a new tournament from scratch so I don’t think this downside is too bad.
(In the future, it wouldn’t be hard to change this, and make default time controls for tournaments in a group match the group’s ladder time control settings. But for now I plan to leave it on the 7d max.)