Czuch Chuckers just noticed that there is a tournament created for October 2006. He saw it on the link on the main page and went for it but realised in time that it's pointless joining it now.

There are two people who have created a year's worth of tournaments in one go. It makes it easy for them but it creates problems for everybody else.

Firstly, as Czuch found, the distant tournaments, though practically irrelevant, get displayed on the main board. Presumably these tournaments are chosen at random from the entire list. As there is a high percentage of these far-futures's, that's going to have a potentially large number of people going to the tournament and backing out when they've realised that they've wasted their time. Or perhaps they don't realise, join up and a year hence find themselves in a tourney that they'd forgotten about.

The other problem is, I would guess, more serious. The entire tournament list gets downloaded every time that anyone visits that page. With so many pointless tournaments that's a huge waste of bandwidth for the server and a pain in the bum for anyone on a slow dialup, not to mention a leak in their purse if they are paying by the minute.

The feature request is thus to allow people to create tournaments in advance, decades if they so desire, but don't have them appear in the system until they are within a more reasonable period. I would be quite happy only knowing what's happening in the next week or so and I'm sure some would want longer, but who needs to plan their tournaments months ahead?