Another thing:
Round 3 is going to overlap with American Thanksgiving. While plenty of players are outside of the US or otherwise do not have any huge time commitments around this holiday, a lot of us do. I wanted to discuss some options to give people some extra time around the holidays.
The current structure is:
Round 3: November 18th (Sunday) to November 25th (Sunday)
Round 4: November 25th (Sunday) to December 2nd (Sunday)
Round 5: December 2nd (Sunday) to December 9th (Sunday)
Round 6: December 9th (Sunday) to December 16th (Sunday)
Cut: After round 6, at the convenience of players
One option is adding an extra week for round 3, which would make the schedule:
Round 3: November 18th (Sunday) to December 2nd (Sunday)
Round 4: December 2nd (Sunday) to December 9th (Sunday)
Round 5: December 9th (Sunday) to December 16th (Sunday)
Round 6: December 16th (Sunday) to December 23rd (Sunday)
Cut: After round 6, at the convenience of players
An issue with this plan, of course, is that that brings us up to the Christmas season, which is another time people have a lot of timing issues.
To address that, we could also add in another week around then, which would look like this:
Round 3: November 18th (Sunday) to December 2nd (Sunday)
Round 4: December 2nd (Sunday) to December 9th (Sunday)
Round 5: December 9th (Sunday) to December 16th (Sunday)
Round 6: December 16th (Sunday) to December 30th (Sunday)
Cut: After round 6, at the convenience of players
Alternatively, we could add a half week for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, which would look like this:
Round 3: November 18th (Sunday) to November 28th (Wednesday)
Round 4: November 28th (Wednesday) to December 5th (Wednesday)
Round 5: December 5th (Wednesday) to December 12th (Wednesday)
Round 6: December 12th (Wednesday) to December 23rd (Sunday)
Cut: After round 6, at the convenience of players
Personally, I like the half-week option, both because it gives people extra time around busy holidays, and it separates pairing day (Sunday) from the weekend, thus giving people more time to schedule games on the weekend, which tends to be when people are more free. But what do YOU like?
What would you most like to do with the timing structure?
- Keep as is (7 days per each tournament round)
- Extra week for round 3
- Extra week for round 3 and round 6
- Extra half week for round 3 and round 6
What timing structure options do you like?
- Keep as is (7 days per each tournament round)
- Extra week for round 3
- Extra week for round 3 and round 6
- Extra half week for round 3 and round 6
- Kidnap Santa Claus and use his time magic so that there are no timing conflicts