Third party tournament manager

[ddugovic]

I was thinking to friendly tournaments within a team, or a specific group of people. Not world-wide arenas open to anybody.

Let's say a group of people enter a tournament. let's say it's a round robin formula, it's supposed to last one week. Each participant communicates their own availability windows and the system provides pairings according to that. Let's say I and my paired player are both available tonight and tomorrow between 8 and 10 pm. We agree upon a specific time and date, then if one of the two doesn't show up he/she loses the game. If both are missing, they both lose points. It seems pretty simple to me.

Another possibility is to use the "challenge to a game" function. Unfortunately, the way it's designed, it seems completely useless to me: while I wait for the other player to accept the challenge I can do nothing but staring at a freezed screen reading "waiting for the opponent". If I could watch the other player's ongoing game on TV, at least, I could avoid wasting my time.

https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/naive-doubts-about-tournaments#9

[ornicar]

https://lichess.org/api#tag/Bulk-pairings