Zingr
Joined: Mar 14, 2004
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Jun 27, 2007 - 01:35 |
 
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In my never-ending quest to be "constructive"...
My experience has been that, on average, games became slightly longer when the 4 minute TTL was initiated, but the extremely long games stopped. This is because most coaches here self-monitored their behavior in turns effectively before the addition of the TTL, and after TTL implementation the coaches who could/would not self-monitor their times on turns were forced to play at a reasonable pace.
Then with the addition of the extra-time, excessively long games came back as the coaches who aren't able to or can not play out their turns in a reasonable time regularly dip into their extra time. So the end result of the 2 changes has been longer average game durations and little or no change in the number of occurrences of extremely long games.
My perspective is that it's not worth the effort or the potential wasted time for me to join any tournament in Ranked with the time setup as it is. As for everyone else, do what you wish based upon you're own circumstance, but do not expect that anything will change in the TTL configuration. |
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Legbreaker
Joined: Jan 30, 2004
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Jun 27, 2007 - 02:17 |
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Actually, I voted No above, but I think I'd choose the "10 min can be used only once a game" option if there was one.
Or you could include a "pause" option that'd stop time, but require your opponent to agree on you using it. But that's probably overdoing things... |
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