Next round.

Originally posted by Irax
Just chill out and enter some other tournaments. It doesn't take long before you have more games that you can handle anyway.

You're missing the point.
Its easy to get many open games like you said or by joining clans, etc...

The point is, if someone enters a banded tournament they want to play someone whos skill level is within the bounds of the tournament.

In the first round this generally happens, this is good.

BUT tournaments take 3 times longer than they should to complete (for the reasons explained above), by the time you get to the final round there is usually one or two players that have reached a skill level far in excess of the original tournament bounds.

This is a problem that needs fixing and the purpose of this thread is to highlight this.

Originally posted by spud2048
You're missing the point.
Its easy to get many open games like you said or by joining clans, etc...

The point is, if someone enters a banded tournament they want to play someone whos skill level is within the bounds of the tournament.

In the first round this generally happens, this is good.

BUT tournaments take 3 times longer than they should to c ...[text shortened]... ds.

This is a problem that needs fixing and the purpose of this thread is to highlight this.

Sounds like you're jealous that other people are improving faster than you.

People get better at chess with study, get used to it.

Originally posted by Irax
Sounds like you're jealous that other people are improving faster than you.

People get better at chess with study, get used to it.

Quite the opposite actually.

You just seem like a really negative person who has nothing constructive to add to this thread.