The Garden Gate Tournament Matches Discussion

[Abacadaren]

I believe that the tournament moderator should be the one with the power to pause at any given time, though either player should be able to ask to begin a pause. As far as how it works, the players have their text channel as in normal games and the moderator would be a spectator who has access to this channel as well.

As far as timer's go what I'm most used to is the chess style time pool with so and so much per game with a delay time for each turn, the delay being for writing down notation or so that if you move fast enough you don't run out of time. The trouble there is that we don't know how long games on average should take or what is reasonable, so it would be up to the person setting up the tournament to decide of course though more than an hour shouldn't be needed I imagine.

I suggest a time for the game rather than per turn is so that you can spend as much time as you want on any given move if you're having trouble, but moving quickly still has incentive. If there is a time per turn, then the "best" way to play is to use 4 minutes and 30 or so seconds every turn since there's no reason to move before that.