I created a tournament which was targeted to start yesterday ( Play Go at online-go.com! | OGS ) but it disappeared today. I suspect this is because it didn’t reach the minimum number of players I set (100) in time. In the past, this would just mean the tournament won’t start until it reaches this minimum number of players and I’ve been using this as a feature so that more people could attend the tournament at the cost of some delay of the starting time, which is usually fine for correspondence tournaments. However, looks like now it means we risk completely losing the tournament? Can we recover the tournament somehow?
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For @GreenAsJade or @anoek.
I vaguely recall some discussion about cleaning up old unstarted tournaments. Did something like that get implemented recently?
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Yes we have a reaper process now that clears those out, there were many hundreds of such tournaments so they definitely needed to be regularly cleaned out, hence the new mechanism.
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imo corr tournaments should stay open longer than 1 day after the starting day, in case theres not enough registered users for it to start >___>
1 day is good for live tourneys, but maybe that could be 7 days for corr tourneys?
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Hi anoek,
Is there any chance to get some back?
Have the same problem with: Play Go at online-go.com! | OGS
Just needed 3 people more - 47 where in.
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Yeah understood they need to be regularly cleaned out, but I think the period is better to be maybe 30 days or at least a week - cleaning them out immediately / within less than a day seems too harsh for correspondence tournaments.
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I get that it’s a change however:
A start time was specified
A minimum number of players was specified
You’re telling your players that this is what they’re signing up for. Delaying start times by say 30 days is weird isn’t it? And what if you get all the way to 49 players by those 30 days, now maybe just one more day would do it! Ultimately, it doesn’t really solve anything it just defers, delays, and makes it more unpredictable.
However it’s not like there are no options for tournament directors when the time is getting close and it looks like the tournament might not happen with the start conditions. As a tournament director you can:
- Specify the number of players required to start to be lower
- Set the start time farther out.
- Edit either of these numbers before the tournament is deleted so that it will start later or with less players
So the tools for remedying this are already there, but it’s up to the directors to step in and decide what’s best for the tournament.
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That’s all true. But sometimes people have stress at work, get ill or smth else and just forget it because of these reasons.
Perhaps it must not be 30 days, but 2 weeks?
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