A little tip: if you’re opponent is going to run out of time in the first three days, and you want to give them some extra time, simply pause and immediately unpause the game, and they will have the full 28 days. (at least it worked like that for me)
So clock seems to switch from “time for the first move” to “time for other moves”. This looks like a bug.
Also note that you have a limited amount of pauses in a single game
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Yes, it might be a bug, but I don’t mind it as a feature. It seems to me that the main reason for having the shorter time for the first move of player 1 is as a convenience for player 2 (so that if player 1 doesn’t show up, player 2 doesn’t have to wait for the full clock to run out before getting the win). Note that player 2 always gets their full time even for their first move (this is different from how it works on for instance Lichess, not sure if intended). If player 2 prefers to give player 1 their full time I think they should be able to do so.
In some other tournament formats there might be a question of whether this unnecessarily prolongs the tournament for other participants, but I don’t think that will be an issue in this case 
Edit: I guess it is a bit weird if black can do the same - gain extra time on their first move by pausing and unpausing. Still not entirely unreasonable since they have then demonstrated that they are present at the board and probably won’t just time out, but this definitely seems unintended.
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Are you good at shell scripting? Since nobody else responded quickly, here’s a tip:
read (with curl or something):
https://online-go.com/api/v1/games/25096385 through
https://online-go.com/api/v1/games/25096429 and
filter/pickup the info you want, sort and assemble a page any way you want, name it
“My group, round 1” and enjoy
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But they can also cheat in a short correspondence tournament when day see he slept then suddenly pause and unpause he won’t have the whole three days and lossed by timeout
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Oh, so sometimes the “initial” time is longer than the main time you get? That is quite problematic indeed.
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@Tokumoto No I have no skills whatsoever in this kind of coding, sorry. Or in any kind of coding, in fact.
Oh well… You can read those pages with your browser, pick up win/loss/ongoing manually, and take a note yourself. Some effort would inevitably be needed 
I think it is only like that in a blitz game. In a short correspondence game I think it is more that their main time would go down instead of their other time.
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What happens when a player is kicked off by time-out of one of his games? Are his other games in the group taken into account? Not sure the question is clear, it’s unclear in my head also.
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Maybe this thread can be helpful
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I bet weekend pause also stops the clocks. If I were smarter I’d put the starting date just before the weekend.
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It is, thanks!
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So I just created a tournament viewer for this tournament (since the OGS tournament page is hard on our browsers):
https://runarberg.github.io/ogs-tournament-viewer/?player=runarberg
You should change the player in the query string from runarberg to your username (e.g. ?player=S_Alexander) to view your group.
This only shows the group that you are in, meaning way less load on the browser.
Regrettably this doesn’t work in Firefox because of CORS issues in the API (Make sure you don’t have a browser add-on that is blocking the requests 
). It is also really minimalist, but I’ll see about adding more features during the weekend (like navigating between groups in a landing page, color coding wins, score, etc.)
Contributions are welcome at https://github.com/runarberg/ogs-tournament-viewer
Enjoy
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I wonder why there was one 3-player group created? The tournament settings say that the minimum group size should be 5, so I thought that the system would have made two 9-player groups in order to lend a couple players to the last group, so that it could have at least 5.
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Or 7 groups of 9 ?
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It doesn’t work for me.
I am supposed to use your same url but with a different username at the end, right?
Like so:
https://runarberg.github.io/ogs-tournament-viewer/?player=Lys
If I do it in my browser (Samsung or Chrome on Android) I get an empty page.
If I click on the above link it works though! Weird! 
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Make sure you use capital letters if they’re in your username, perhaps that’s what went wrong.
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