Dang it Thibault! I can't join! I'm busy Sunday...(crying, sobbing)
What if the time control was randomly chosen, [1+0, 5+2, 15+10] with a probability of maybe [4, 2, 1], with more points awarded for longer games? Like 2 points for bullet wins, 14 points for blitz wins, and 50 points for rapid wins
The other possibility would be instead of random to have the 24 hours divided into twelve 2 hour periods of a bullet, blitz, and rapid cycle (maybe mix in periods for random variants, but that starts to get more complicated), but again I think more points would need to be awarded for longer games to prevent a huge bias towards bullet. This would make the event more like a triathlon.
The other possibility would be instead of random to have the 24 hours divided into twelve 2 hour periods of a bullet, blitz, and rapid cycle (maybe mix in periods for random variants, but that starts to get more complicated), but again I think more points would need to be awarded for longer games to prevent a huge bias towards bullet. This would make the event more like a triathlon.
#63 Very good idea.
The best event since we can play chess online!!! :-) :-) :-)
thibault: If we win a trophy, do we keep it forever? Or only until the next marathon?
Forever it is.
Thibault, You so live for doing this.
Question: If I have to be absent for the last hour of the tournament (Ugh, timezones), is it OK if I close lichess and stop the matchmaking while retaining my position in the tournament, or will that withdraw me and make me ineligible for the trophy?
Maybe the "Way of the Berserk" trophy could be won by someone if they played a minimum number of games, and all of their games were berserk... just a thought
Unihedron: normally that would get you disqualified, but I'll see if I can change that for the marathon.
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