Since all the hourly tournaments created by the team seem to go deserted almost always, what about doing something different?
1) Marathons (24h) or semi marathons (12h) are always highly requested by communities. Right now I always see the same hundred players playing the tournaments and I rarely see new players. Marathons are notorious to be events that gather many many players and promote the variant to new players.
You don't have to necessarily offer money prizes, you could for example choose the best game of the tournament and showcase it in the team homepage or invent something original.
2) Weekly special tournaments which again offer something peculiar as prizes or simply you could make something like the Bundesliga or the Elite zh and keep note of the podium of each tournament and then sum up the points in a final leaderboard.
3) From position or special rules tournaments: for example a no castling variation but for crazyhouse. Potentially even a set up position which should obviously be balanced for black and which offers different strategies. This is certainly a tough challenge in zh since white is hugely advantaged, but the good thing is that I believe FP variants games are always unrated by default.
I mean we could experiment new things and see how they work out.
Said that, I appreciate your work so far so thank you.
1) Marathons (24h) or semi marathons (12h) are always highly requested by communities. Right now I always see the same hundred players playing the tournaments and I rarely see new players. Marathons are notorious to be events that gather many many players and promote the variant to new players.
You don't have to necessarily offer money prizes, you could for example choose the best game of the tournament and showcase it in the team homepage or invent something original.
2) Weekly special tournaments which again offer something peculiar as prizes or simply you could make something like the Bundesliga or the Elite zh and keep note of the podium of each tournament and then sum up the points in a final leaderboard.
3) From position or special rules tournaments: for example a no castling variation but for crazyhouse. Potentially even a set up position which should obviously be balanced for black and which offers different strategies. This is certainly a tough challenge in zh since white is hugely advantaged, but the good thing is that I believe FP variants games are always unrated by default.
I mean we could experiment new things and see how they work out.
Said that, I appreciate your work so far so thank you.