I think that you should put a normal tournament before a straight and a speed tournament afterwards on every occasion.

unless you shortened the time limit to 22 minutes like in most tournaments?

22 for which? Straight? I think it already is...? If not, leave it

yeah...thats what i ment.

but surely there must be someway to keep more people interested without changing things to dramaticly

People are interested. Then they don't pay attention and get logged out

oh i see...

how about if you are entered in a tournament; insted of a 15 minute log out, you have a 30 minute log out so all the tournament players stay in??

or is that too hard

It's along those lines that my next post would have been, depending on the response. An login time that would last as long as the player is in the tourney, so that all he/she has to do it wait for the BOING!!! and not have to worry about taking a shot or changing rooms or anything in the meantime.

Nothing worse than silently watching a game, and then watching as you are logged out before your eyes just as the game is about to end and signal the start of the next round. Which you then miss.

Just to resurrect this rather than start a new thread.....

I estimate from the members info shown in the help section that at least 78% are in the UK/Western Europe time zone.

With the change to BST it now means that the three marathon tournaments and one straight (all in fairly close proximity to each other) are now outside of the normal playing time for the vast majority of your members.

It was not balanced before last weekend but it seems to me to be even more imbalanced now?

Yeah aggreed I cant confortably enter even one marathon