FrancescoLR:  I think this discussion needs to stay focused to the tournament board tourneys that are open...  you can't control who signs up for every tourney (in all reality you can because you can manually boot someone from a tourney) which is your arguement; however you should be able to control how many tourneys a person has open at a given time.  I think 10 tournaments is very reasonable.  For those that want to start a ton of tournaments; they can start 10 every day and leave them open for a day...  or start one every day and leave them open for 10 days...  or whatever combination you can think of; but allowing people to leave potentially hundreds of tournaments is ridiculous.  I'll prove my point by starting a couple hundred tourneys and then I'll tell you to look at the tournament board.  WAIT...  go there now and you'll see it like that anyways because of a few people that create the same tourneys a hundred fold!

Instead of making this a general request for a limit on open tourneys; I think we should make it an opportunity to give one more reason to pawns to become a member...  make additional tourneys a perk to becoming a member!  For example:

Pawns are allowed to have 1 open tourney.
Bishops: 3
Knights: 5
Black Knights and White Rooks: 10
Black Rooks: 15
so on and so forth... 

This gives one more 'perk' to becoming a member while still allowing everyone to have open tournies.  More than fair.

What does this do to the tournament board?  I believe it will have less tournaments on the board which should have close to or possibly even more participation due to more members in a tournament  (Instead of 3 people in 10 tournaments you get maybe 7 people in 3 tournaments), thus allowing more tournaments to start!

ALSO:  Hopefully this will spur additional members to create unique tournaments which will spur additional people to look at the board more often instead of being flooded with the same thing again and again...  and again!  I hope this is seriously considered...  it wouldn't take much to code this (from my understanding) into BrainKing.  Long term it is one more marketing point (perk) to get people to consider a higher membership...  As a member of Brainking for nearly 3 years; I have become all but bored with the tournaments and believe it has something to do with the same small group of people creating the tournaments...

Another thought:  maybe we have Official Brainking tournaments once a month, once a quarter, or even once a year to see who the best is???  Then give brains or a prize (picture of a big blue ribbon or a gold medal!) on their profile...  further thoughts to think about...

Hope others chime in on this subject.

Thanks,

Phil (rednaz23)