Many countries around the world have experienced a shift in timezone this weekend, with more also changing next weekend.

Our tournaments will remain anchored to the same time in UTC. So if your clock has/will change by an hour then make sure you consider that the tournaments that you may have become used to over the last few months will shift by an hour.

Currently our regular schedule is as follows:
Daily Variant Shield tournaments: 1800 UTC
Weekly Draughts Medley Shield: 1300 UTC on Saturdays
Weekly Chess Medley Shield: 1900 UTC on Saturdays
Weekly PlayStrategy Medley Shield: 1900 UTC on Sundays

Finally, there might be more regular tournaments at some point, what time would you like to see tournaments run on PlayStrategy?

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I think it would be convenient to have more tournaments on the weekend.

I am curious about what kinds of tournaments are planned. Would they be more arena tournaments or would there be any Swiss ones? Are more of the tournaments planned to be medley tournaments or tournaments for individual games?

We're undecided at the moment. What would you like to see?

I do like the Swiss tournament format, although if they don't attract enough people I suppose it would be best to stick to arena mode. I enjoy the variety of the medley tournaments but I find it difficult to switch between games with very similar rules, such as all of the different draughts variants.

I guess whether there are more medleys or individual game tournaments depends on what Playstrategy is focused on. Do people prefer to think of it as a place where people compete across multiple games or do people want to use it to study and play a single preferred game. Or maybe it should be somewhere in the middle. I'd be interested in knowing what everyone else thinks. I enjoy playing a variety of games currently, but maybe if I found a game that really fascinated me I would play it more exclusively.

I think the medley tournaments turn out very differently if they are arena mode vs Swiss. In Arena mode anyone can drop in for the games they are good at and withdraw during games they aren't but in Swiss people are motivated to stick around for all of the variants. I'm not sure which one is better but the dynamics definitely feel different between the two.

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Some interesting points. Thanks for the feedback! Yes, Swiss doesn't do great with low numbers/no shows at the moment.

You are doing tournaments at the wrong time anyway. I live in Omsk, so try at least 1 tournament according to my time