Looking at a bunch of games, seems that in 18 hours all the white timeout should be gone. Is that really so?
If so, I could download the weekly update tomorrow, to separate whites from blacks.
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Probably most B people played their first moves ASAP, within a day or so. The ones who didn’t will probably come up at irregular intervals and not in a big wave.
So I suggest a download before the big B timeout, it will be fun to compare next week!
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Yeah black time out in 40 hours so I guess any time tomorrow should be pretty good
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I have two games with White timeout scheduled 24h from now …
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Thanks
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Eight days later:
- 4639 games left, 1362 players involved, 139 groups
- 1026 completed games
- 2 players completed all their games
- 1 player resigned
- 400 players were disqualified
The flood of timeouts for white players should be finished. 400 disqualified it’s a lot! Look at the peak in the chart:
40% of the overall disqualified players in a couple days.
In about 6 hours there will be the second wave of timeouts for blacks.
I believe that the overall number of disqualified players shouldn’t change much. The players that didn’t play any move were white in some games and black in others, so they’ve been already disqualified.
Now we have only 978 qualified players, less than half of the starting subscribers.
The winning rate for black rocketed to 20% against 5% for white.
After the black wave it should come back to a balance.
@timuzhti is now the top ranked player with 15 points.
@site15 and @ajiadjuster are following with 13 points.
We don’t have a 9-wins player yet in this round, but we have three 7-wins.
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Kind of sad that over half have been disqualified. While I have enjoyed my games, I think this tournament format can’t really be considered a success, when a majority have been disqualified. Has been an interesting experiment though.
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Two days later:
- 2583 games left, 1114 players involved, 138 groups
- 2056 completed games
- 248 players completed all their games
- 1 group completed all its games
- 59 players were disqualified
I wanted to check again the situation after few days because I was curious about the second wave of timeouts: the “black wave”.
Most of the timeout games should be gone. I mean, those with a player who didn’t play a move.
I think there’re still some going, probably because of vacations or something.
We had about 3 thousands games ending in a few days.
I’m very surprised that the “black wave” involved twice as many games than the “white wave”.
How is it?
I thought that white and black were almost even. I must be missing something.
The winning rate for white is now 35.9% against 22.8 for black. That’s very different from the first round, where black and white were almost equal through the whole round.
I wonder if these values will become more even in the future.
Also I’m surprised that we have 59 more disqualified players. They survived the “white wave” and fell for the black one. How is it? I thought that every absent player would have games both as black and white. So they should’ve all fallen in the white wave. But 59 didn’t.
Maybe some slow black players delayed the first turn for whites? Actually a few days would’ve been enough for that. So we should expect some more timeouts in the next days.
Roughly half of the overall games ended by timeout. That’s impressive!
Now we have 41% qualified players and 41% active games.
275 players completed all their games.
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This must be the saddest group in the round:
100% finished games
0 moves played
8 players disqualified because of timeout
1 player resigned all his games from the beginning (but didn’t resign from the tournament!)
1 player resigned all his games as black and won the rest because of black player’s timeout
This group is the opposite:
No disqualified players
All games going and with a lot of moves
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Isn’t this a survival tournament? I would expect by its end to have maybe 90% disqualify, no?
All absent players with black end at once, but absent players with white, who knows when their opponent made their move? Could have been only days ago, right? So then they still have much time on their clock.
The white wave is a false wave, really it’s just a regular timeout, since black necessarily made a move… it’s just that for the first move many black players played quickly, but evidently not all.
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Love this piece! 
But anyway it was a wave, with 1k games ending in few hours.
Agree. If my prejudice is right, we could say about half of them. I’m expecting now about 1k games ending by white’s timeout in the next weeks.
If that was the case, about 2/3 of the games from second round wouldn’t go beyond the second move. That’s a little sad.
For sure it is now.
This wasn’t the intention of its creator though. He was thinking about community, dialogue and friendship.
That’s a little sad too.
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Maybe. That’s yet to be seen. For sure all the thousands were never going to make the end… but if say a core couple dozen persist… that sounds pretty cool to me!
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We have to keep in mind some people just die. 
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Isn’t it rude to die while still being in a tournament???
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Perhaps for many just surviving the first round was a goal. If the remaining rounds also take 4 years, I don’t expect to survive the tournament myself. Will it become a badge of honor to be still playing eventually? Perhaps the “serious” players are now moving forward and next round will have smaller black and white waves.
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Yes, I’m pretty sure you’d be reported and get a warning a friendly reminder from a mod that it is very impolite to escape like that and disappoint your surviving opponents.
Not to forget, you’d be asked not to die again while still playing.
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It may be rude but still a YKYAGA dream
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Refreshing your memory … 
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La vie m’aura servi de leçon. Je ne recommencerai pas.
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Is it rude to apologize in advance?
(asking for a friend 
)
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