Is it possible to auto remove afk players from tournaments too? I was in one a day or two ago where we had like 7 people out of 40+ that were actually there. The rest sat out the entire time.
Yeah, I was present at this. It was at night, somewhere between 11pm-3/4am CST, can't remember exactly. It was pretty messed up. If I recall correctly, at one point, there was one table with four people battling it out. Another table had two players taking turns taking the afk blinds and essentially dividing all the afk stacks between themselves. And on another table, there was only one player present who was just fast clicking and scooping all the afk stacks. Not only did some players gain an (?unfair) advantage becaus eof all the afks, but it also made the game last unnecessarily (and excruciatingly) longer than it should have, waiting for the 30+ players to slowly blind out.
Thanks for the freerolls and I know you're still tweaking a lot of things so the freerolls might not be a priority, but...
might I kindly suggest - for freerolls only - possibly trying something along the lines of:
- at the start of the second level, removing players who have been sitting out all through the first level.
- removing players who have been sitting out for more than a certain reasonable number of hands in a row, like 10-20 hands in a row.
- make the freerolls turbo - 5-6 min levels. (I like the 6-max format that is sometimes used bc of the action it generates)
- shorten registration time to 20-15 mins prior to start (sure, you might not get as many runners, but if people reg and don't bother to play/show up or just reg hoping to finish in the money without playing, then what's the point?)
Again, these suggestions are just for freeolls. Buy-in tournaments are a different story, obv since players being removed in a freeroll would't be losing any buy-ins.
On related a side note, I was playing one of the FR's last night and a storm knocked out power in my area early/midway in. I was somewhere in the middle of the pack as far as stack size. I think there were around 30 or so people entered. Anyway, to make a long story longer, I log in later later when the power comes back and find that I finished in the money (6th) with the final four players still playing. So yeah, I was definitely afk for mor than 20++ hands in a row and still finished itm over some who were actually present and playing.
Not complaining about finishing itm while afk, but I do know how it sucks to get knocked out on/near the bubble while there are afk/sitting out people still around who never played a hand.
Anyway, Thanks again for the FR's and I'm looking forward to more traffic and more games as you guys keep improving things.