Timeout or time zone settings in tournaments

Jorrig

I am struggling with a lot of timeouts in Fast Async tournaments, and I am looking for a way to avoid this. Feedback I got is that Fast Async is a bit too fast, especially for games with players in different time zones. Medium Async is a bit too slow for my taste. I am looking for a way to find something in between.

It is currently possible to set a custom reserve time per age in a tournament. However, the reserve time can only be lowered, not raised. Would it be possible to change that and allow for an increase? Maybe you can cap it to avoid any programming issues.
Would it be possible to allow for a custom reaction time? Set, for example, 6 hours instead of 3 or 12? Since you currently don't give the option, I assume this is a bit harder to do, but 6 hours reaction time would take a lot of pressure off those Fast Async games.
Is it possible to add a time zone requirement for a tournament or a game in particular? Say, an IP check for people joining a game? If impossible for a single game, maybe this information could be published in a tournament, such that the organiser can see it and kick out the "wrong" players? Again, this is only for smoother game play, no serious ban on people, since you could probably circumvent that by VPNs, anyway.

Jorrig

Could I reiterate this wish and maybe get a reply, please? I organise a 4p games tournament on Fast Async. The upside is that games finish quite soon, but I get frequent replies that the 3h time is a bit too stressful for players. I also see that some players time out without really neglecting gameplay (they play till age III and then something happens). I think a middle setting of 6h would be nice, since it would allow players to play morning and evening without running on red time so often. This is also a psychological thing. Red time makes players nervous and stresses them. I'd rather reduce red time and extend blue time a bit. I have hardly seen anyone use up their red time as extra thinking time like in Blitz games. This rather indicates the time until an unwilling player times out. As a tournament organiser, I'd prefer to keep that time low while making life for all dedicated players less stressful.

Newt

Jorrig I have the same issue.... I'm currently running a FAST ASYNC Tournament with 16 players.

I have found that in FAST ASYNC with motivated players who check the game at least morning and evening - the time-out problem is manageable - as long as you don't have what I call the "3-continent problem". Here is a link to a utility that illustrates the problem visually:

https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?pl=1&lid=2988507,22,7&h=2988507&hf=1

If you have at least one player in AUS/ASIA, one player in THE AMERICAS and one player in EUROPE - there are not enough shared waking hours to keep the game moving.

In my current tournament we have mostly North Americans, but we also have and Aussie and a number of Europeans. Any combination of two of these time zones is manageable. We just completed Stage 2 with 24 games (6 games in each group of players) and only had one time-out.

However, in Stage 3 (which we are about to start) we have one group that has the Aus - USA - UK problem. I'm waiting to start Stage 3 until I can come up with a resolution...

So - yes - an answer / fix from CGE would be nice!

In the future, I'll likely have to restrict my FAST ASYNC tournaments a range of time zones that aren't so wildly disparate.