Start game early (tournaments only)
Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:52 am
Concise description:
- An option for tournament organizers to start a game before it is full.
- Many times a tournament will have players drop out or ignore invitations. This often results in the tournament organizer dropping the existing game, and re-sending out invites to the active players. This slows down the tournament, especially when waiting for the 8th player to join a game, having the invitation expire, dropping & recreating the game, then sending out 7 new invites, and waiting for all 7 players to join again.
- I emphasize that this would be for tournaments only. I don't want to see this abused by players starting 8-player games, then starting the game as soon as 1 person joins. The generic "Start Early" button was suggested several months ago, but I see this as a separate request.
- This will make tournaments more efficient for the organizers, and less frustrating for the players who are stuck waiting for their games to start.