Revisiting Automatch Time Settings: Data-Backed Proposal for New Automatch Settings on OGS

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In an old thread they considered recategorising live games as <= 9s:

Blitz games not counted properly

Thanks @shinuito for bringing this to my attention again, I reckon the best fix would be to actually make those blitz games, ie dropping the average move time down below 10s per move. So poll time, what should be the time increment / byo yomi time ? poll I’ll update both the site wide scheduled tournaments and the automatch settings accordingly.

In the same thread anoek mentioned it would be a hassle to change things in the backend so that 10s counted as live:

Blitz games not counted properly

Once upon a time in a poll long long ago 10s was voted as the cutoff, and changing that has a lot of implications that are unpleasant - so that’s why it’s not listed. The solution is to make the things we called blitz games actually blitz games I reckon.