if they are in a lost position, please use the Report Abuse link. if not... well, sometimes things come up :(
Removing a slacker from a tournament
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Aug 23, 2008
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This advice is a bit late now but...
The last time this was discussed, it was pointed out that the Player Move Speed (advanced) option on Tournament creation already provides this functionality. It has 3 selective settings:
Above Average (<12Hrs) Fast(<6 Hrs) Very Fast(<3Hrs).
I haven't noticed many tournaments using it, perhaps because it would be even harder to fill the places. http://www.chess.com/forum/view/tournaments/time-per-move
The slowest guy in your tournament has a move speed 'Above Average'.
give him two weaks, then judge his games by time out unless he was winning badly, and then it's just not fair...
Aug 23, 2008
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even a player with a 1hr average would be slow on holiday :-) there isnt really a solution, he hasnt done anything 'wrong' as such.....maybe put a paragraph in your future tournys asking people who are planning a break not to enter?
Maybe he had a family emergency, death, illness give him time to explain. Job called him away, etc, etc.
IrishMike 
I just got back from 13 hour flight from Tokyo (delayed 2 hours), and then a 2 hour flight to Pittsburgh at Campus. Once I arrived at campus, I was left without anything because storage was closed. I came back to see vacation had auto-kicked in luckily. But... shit happens, I'd love to be right on time to play all my moves but other stuff can get in the way as well.
Try giving this guy benefit of the doubt, like Irish Mike said, maybe something actually did come up.
Thanks for the words, everyone. I'm the kind of person who probably wouldn't enter a tournament unless I thought that I'd be around somewhat regularly to see it through. Good to know how others feel about this situation. I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt for a while longer... trust me, I'm not militant... life is what happens away from the computer, so I can dig.
Hell, it's just a tournament.
I'm not sure I understand..Unless he runs out of time he's not doing anything wrong.
Check out the tournament; everyone else has completed 5-15 games and the person in question has completed 0. AGain, I was just trying to check out what established norms exist around here since I'm relatively new. I agree that he/she isn't doing anything 'wrong', but as the tournament director I imagine that I have the discretion to boot tournament registrants who aren't keeping pace in their games with everyone else. If all other games are finished and this person hasn't started to put out... then, I guess they'll get the boot.
I did a quick search and couldn't see this question, sorry if it's been done before.
I set up a tournament and we're mid way through, almost everyone has completed all of their games except for one player. They went on holidays a week ago...
I'm not particularly cuthroat, but this seems to be extremely poor judgement on their part in entering a tournament (1d move limit) then pissing off. Thoughts?