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Varied Level Lengths
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 11:29 am
by Pamela
Would love the option to vary the lengths of the levels so that they could get shorter the deeper the tournament goes. We run a lot of tournaments for newbies, so the longer lengths are great during the rebuy period while they're still figuring things out, but would like to make the structure more aggressive in the latter half.
Re: Varied Level Lengths
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:23 pm
by Kent Briggs
You could make all your levels short but early on have two or three in a row that keep the same blinds.
Re: Varied Level Lengths
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:26 pm
by Pamela
Thanks Kent, great idea. Little upset I didn't think of it myself

Re: Varied Level Lengths
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:21 pm
by DaneW
I’d like to run tournaments with 8 min levels and then 10 min levels after late registration is over. You’re asking me to have find the common denominator (2) and run all 2 min levels & making it appear as though there’s 100+ total levels in the tournament?
Re: Varied Level Lengths
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:37 pm
by Kent Briggs
DaneW wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 2:21 pm
I’d like to run tournaments with 8 min levels and then 10 min levels after late registration is over.
Why bother with such an insignificant change?
Re: Varied Level Lengths
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 12:16 am
by DaneW
How about 8 min levels to 12 min levels? not insignificant as its a 50% increase in level length. Im being forced to make the tournament with 61 levels where normally it would be 25. Can it be done? Sure. Is it aesthetically pleasing? No.
Re: Varied Level Lengths
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 1:14 am
by Kent Briggs
Rather than confuse your players with changing level durations (which is not supported), you can just adjust the rate of increase in the blinds as you see fit.