Because u missed your last swiss game

[half imp]

Because you missed your last swiss game, you cannot enter a new swiss tournament until 7 Jun 2023, 20:53. I haven't missed any swiss game, I just withdrew from a previous tournament and played all games before hitting pause.

[eager totem]

that means you missed/didn't play the final pairing in your previous tournament, right?

[half imp]

so if there is a swiss tournament with many rounds that take let's say 3 hours and u pause at some point then u get a cooldown?

[eager totem]

yes

it's not a cooldown, it's a settings that tournament organizers can enforce

[half imp]

so if my opponent doesn't show up I have to wait for his time to run out instead of withdrawing?

[half imp]

how does this work?

it seems generic

the cooldown applies to all swiss tournaments

not just one organizer

[eager totem]

when you create a swiss tournament, under advanced settings

it's on by default

[half imp]

is this a new feature?

[eager totem]

it used to be off by default

[half imp]

are these changes announced somewhere?

it is annoying to have new rules retroactively enforced when u don't know about them yet

[eager totem]

how is it retroactive?

https://lichess.org/changelog gets updated periodically

[half imp]

it used to be off by default

as u said

[eager totem]

that's not what retroactive means

[half imp]

so I couldn't know about it

[eager totem]

great! now you know so don't withdraw or ask the organizers to not enable it

[half imp]

well yea but would have been nice to learn some other way

[half imp]

and this doesn't work if u play in different torunaments

like original organiser might not have it but the others have it by default

so u can only play in tournaments by the same organiser

or it affects u

right?

[eager totem]

that's the plan! prevent people joining multiple swiss tourneys and not playing in them
play in arenas if you want to do that

[half imp]

this will hurt smaller organizers

I joined because there weren't many players so that there could be a tournament

but it had many rounds

so couldn't play the entire thing

only like 2 out of 3 hours

if u have less than 10ppl then swiss tournaments aren't really worth it

[eager totem]

and for some people if everyone leaves after 3-4 rounds, the tournament isn't worth it
they would rather not have the tournament at all

[half imp]

well it was hosted by an IM who hosts weekly and has a reasonably big team

everyone leaving is unlikely

now they have a higher barrier of joining

if they plan on playing any other swiss tournaments

[eager totem]

I don't know what to tell you
He has a big team and still doesn't have enough people who would join his swiss and play till completion. Maybe he should host arenas or shorter (less rounds) swiss 🤷

[half imp]

the point is to have slower games and those don't really work in Arena format

there r like 10 regular ppl that usually watch his stream and join the tournament and the rest is made of random ppl

and random ppl don't seem to join after this change

so I really hope they thought this trough

seems there have been a lot of strange decisions recently

like this thing and allowing Dlugy play in an online qualifier

btw, does the cooldown get longer if u drop out more than once or is always the same?

[eager totem]

This is not a playban cooldown, you are either allowed to join a tournament or not.

[half imp]

I'm sorry but this doesn't answer the question

u don't know?

[half imp]

it says it expires at a certain time but I wonder if it gets longer if it happens again

[eager totem]

well yeah you can have playban alongside this, which I guess you have for aborting or ragesitting

[half imp]

I didn't mean play ban just this

like if u get this ban again by withdrawing again from another tournament once the ban expires, will the ban get longer or it is the same?

[eager totem]

it's same