I think exchanging variants every 20 minutes could be intersting until complete 80 minutes.

Also giving more balance to the Medley.

Same think could happen will all the Medleys with two vatiants like Shogi, Xiangqi, Breakthrough and Othello.

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@oruro thanks for your feedback, it is always good to hear opinions about our tournaments.

With the Medley Shields that only have 2 or 3 variants, the aim is to give a bit more weighting to the primary variant of the grouping. In the case of Shogi, Xiangqi, Breakthrough and Togyzqumalaq this also makes sense as the secondary variant is quicker and so more games can be played in a shorter time. In effect this works similar to the 'Balance Intervals' option available to any user when creating their own medley.

Looking at the most recent Togyzqumalaq Medley: playstrategy.org/tournament/h4GqT1pC we can see that Togyzqumalaq gets double the amount of time that Bestemshe gets. Yet in this tournament there were more Bestemshe games (11) than Togyzqumalaq (8). Of course there may have been some pausing going on, but this tournament seemed to have at least 3 players active for the majority of it. If we balanced the time each variant gets then we would see a tournament of predominantly Bestemshe games with only a few Togyzqumalaq games, which goes against the idea of the Medley a little bit.

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