Hello, I recently organized a Team Battle. I can't post links anymore today so you can open the tournament from the game: playstrategy.org/xoNoyYzZ/p2

There were 3 active players, I played against @Champion22 in my second round, but happy_player paused, which means Champion22 was last player I played with. We couldn't be paired until happy_player unpaused.

Is there a way to avoid this in the future?

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There are some old posts related with this situation!

In the PlayStrategy feedback should be something.

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Thanks for the report, this has been "fixed" for arena mode. There can be a wait to allow paused players to rejoin in time (e.g. from game page back to tournament), this is around 30s depending on the time control. It looks like the your 2nd game ended at 8:25:06, and the next game started at 8:25:36. Therefore this wait is expected.
Please let us know if you experience a much longer wait and we can investigate further.

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Hi, thanks for replying. I put the games start time. Please let me know if I missed something.

08:00 || First game happy_player vs FiveKnights playstrategy.org/xoNoyYzZ/p2
08:15 || Second game FiveKnights vs Champion22 playstrategy.org/m18i9AIs/p1
08:25 || Third game Champion22 vs happy_player, as you can see by the remaining players' time it was a short game playstrategy.org/TjbegLB2/p2
happy_player paused
5 min+ wait time
happy_player unpaused
08:36 || Fourth game happy_player vs FiveKnights playstrategy.org/qvb5XZCm/p2

Edit: I put wrong draughts color for players in post, fixed now

Thanks for the details, you are right there is a 5min gap between:
the 3rd game, which ended 8:31:48, and
the 4th game starting at 8:36:32.
I'll raise a ticket for this to be investigated, it could be that the team battle setup has an additional effect on pairings.

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