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We just played the first SN chess tournament with 4 active players!
@stefano took first place by winning all four games!
Second place was @314piepi as metkram and @Taft achieved third place. Both had two wins but @314piepi apparently had the better "tournament performance" (I don't know what that means exactly):
How is the winner decided?The player(s) with the most points at the conclusion of the tournament's set time limit will be announced winner(s).When two or more players have the same number of points, the tournament performance is the tie break.
-- lichess, Arena Tournament FAQ
I secured fourth place with a lucky win because when the tournament started, I was on the toilet and @Taft didn't make the initial move in time.
@Coinsreporter unfortunately was watching cricket according to the last message in the chat:
Hi, I was busy in the finals of Cricket. Now I'm here ..
But doesn't matter, there will be a next time!
If you go to the tournament page on lichess, you can watch a replay of all games if you're interested. Just click on a player and you will see all of their tournament games. If you click on a game, you will be dropped into a replay.
Changes for next time
No increments
Games took a lot longer due to the 5 seconds gained per turn. This meant that we could play less games against each other. Even though we were just 5 players and had 1.5 hours, we only got in 9 games in total with everyone playing between 4-5 games.
Next time, we're going to do 10+0 or 5+0.
I like 10+0 because I'm bad and need a lot of time to think, haha. Maybe we can make a poll for this?
No streaks
@stefano had a pretty big lead because he won the first two games and then received 4 points per win.
Better scheduling
5 players of 14 that initially expressed interested showed up. This was somewhat expected. It was still fun but it would have been more fun with more players.
One reason for a show-up rate of 35% might be that I announced the date for the tournament on a pretty short schedule with just two days before. I wanted to get the ball rolling fast instead of waiting 2 weeks for the first tournament as @anon suggested here. I kept in mind that we can simply repeat the tournament regularly so I wasn't too concerned with not many showing up.
I suggest we do this every weekend and whoever has time can join.
The question is just if we should always meet at the same time or always change the time to avoid a very unfortunate time for someone so they can never join?
If someone has better ideas for scheduling, please let me know!
Can we get more than 4 active players next weekend?
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