The Eiffel Tower

Zathio

If you need another player to join mid season, or if there's a list of alternates somewhere, i would love to join in

roverandom

Hi, I have a problem in one game (2p, vs covfefe, JIRUTATA code) I ended my turn yet it says it is my turn in lobby. In game it says it is covfefes turn. But I see only my time running out..

Thisisnotasmile

roverandom sorry I didn't see this. Looks like the issue was resolved and you won the game. Congrats!

Lothar

I have a 2-player game where my opponent timed out. Can I resign at this point and still get credit for a win?

Thisisnotasmile

Lothar Yes you can.

Fleepa0

Hi! Is there some way to drop from the tournament?

I recently don´t have much time to play TTA tournaments so i was resigning all my games, but i just saw that it was a full year league. So, is there a way to avoid having to resign/timeout every game in order to not bother the rest of the players and getting my rating further destroyed in the process? 🙂

Thisisnotasmile

Fleepa0 Sorry, no, it's not possible. I know this format is not perfect for everyone, I am sorry you realised it's not for you mid-way through the season. I have just launched batch 28 of 40. You are welcome to continue resigning or timing out of your games, or if you do get the time/desire you might decide to play a few games out. You can opt not to re-join for 2024.

Thisisnotasmile

Thank you to everyone who has joined for 2024. Despite a number of people opting not to play for a second year, we've reached a HUGE 200 players this time around. The groups are prepared and I have some support from CGE during the week to set up the complex game schedule for the year ahead. If all goes to plan, we will begin to play next weekend. Bon chance!

Thisisnotasmile

I think we will start next weekend instead. The games have been created but still need to be split into batches. This works out quite nicely for me as I'm hosting 9-player Western Empires tomorrow so not really an ideal day for me to be launching a tournament too!

Thisisnotasmile

Eiffel Tower batches are all sorted and I'm a bit quiet on the TTA front so I'm going to launch batch 1 and move to the planned regular Saturday schedule from next week. This means we'll have the final games in progress before December begins. Good luck everyone!

GrafZahl

Hi, there ja an issue regarding the gardens Game 302 (Code DUMIBEPE) because this 3p-Game was never displayed for me and it seems like it was the same for the other player (although) Alex dropped out of several other games aswell. Both of us didnt play a single turn.
Can you restart this game so that we have the chance to play the game?
I came over the problem by accident because I tried to reconstruct my pointstotal. Its pretty annoying that this bug(?) not only cost me to play the game and the chance to win some points but also it gave me -2 points for the "dropout".

Best wishes
GrafZahl

Thisisnotasmile

GrafZahl Hey, sorry I've only just seen your message. I can see that you both timed out on turn 1 as you said. I have contacted your opponent vbogoev to check they would be okay with the game being replayed. If so, I will reach out to CGE support to see if it can be done. I'm not even sure if it's possible but if it is and vbogoev is in agreement then I am happy for the match to be replayed. Sorry that this has affected you and thanks for playing in my tournament!

Thisisnotasmile

GrafZahl vbogoev has agreed to a rematch, if it's possible. I've asked the tournament expert at CGE if they're able to set it up. I'll let you know what they say.

Thisisnotasmile

GrafZahl New game started.

Thisisnotasmile

Hi everyone. For those who don't know, there is an active TTA Discord server at https://discord.gg/uXXEeG7yAc. There has been some discussion about the Eiffel Tower tournament recently and based on the discussions I am looking to introduce the following changes from next year. Please feel free to share any of your own thoughts about these changes and the tournament as a whole, or on Discord as I am open to considering other views and ideas to keep Eiffel Tower going from strength to strength.

League Size - I do not want to go down to a 7 or 8 person league as this feels too similar to other tournaments out there and too far from my initial plan. I have contemplated a 13-person league taking 6 months, but ultimately, I want annual seasons and will stick to 25 people per league. If this puts some people off then that is a price I am willing to pay to provide the type of tournament I want to bring to TTA.
Time Reserve - There are great arguments on each side here and honestly I am torn. I think as a compromise I will use a reserve of 36 hours next year. Hopefully that is enough time for people who want more, but not too much to put off those who just want to get their games done. Ultimately, I think this is a point of contention that we will never be able to satisfy everyone on.
Promotion & Relegation - I was pretty fixated on having a few people promoted and relegated between leagues because of the football structure I mentioned, and from the start thought I was making a compromise by significantly increasing the number of promotions and relegations, and also including double promotions, based on feedback received before the tournament ever launched. There have been some radically different ideas mentioned here which I hadn't even considered a possibility, so thank you for those. I don't want to complicate things too much, so I think I will go through with wolvs' idea of simply seeding people based on their Glicko rating when the tournament starts each year and do away with promotion and relegation all together. It is a Glicko rated competition, so a good performance in a lower league will likely result in a higher league placement the following year regardless.

FFAZ

Hi, one of my game I saw a bot is allowed to be declared war at. Is this allowed by the rule?

Thisisnotasmile

Hi FFAZ. Yes, declaring war against a bot is allowed. You are only forbidden from offering bots pacts in tournament games.