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Too few Crazyhouse arenas

The original topic started by @sacdatsht has been closed, but the Github remains open. I call on all those who responded in support of the basic idea (off the top of my head that's @skeftomilos, @talldove, @shakki-mestari123 and @grogers among others) to get on this comment and show your support, as I have github.com/ornicar/lila/issues/8925#issuecomment-842274274

I reproduce the text also here:

"The issue is about having an active hourly crazyhouse tournament of some (reasonably various) timecontrol at any part of the day 24/7.

In other words to have 24 hourly crazyhouse tournaments each day.

Currently there is one only every 3 hours and it is completely unreasonable and defying any definition of common sense to expect crazyhouse players to organize their daily schedule and free time around the current arbitrarily defined and ill justified schedule"
Maybe first we should lay some groundwork to break some taboos around the aesthetics of multiple rows in tables, as it seems the main reason for this frustration is the reluctance for adding more rows in the time table, motivated solely by aesthetical arguments.

In my culture it is widely accepted that "real tables have rows", and "tables with rows are beautiful".

However, apparently these kind of statements sound too outrageous to some people and they need confirmation in the form of not only forum posts here, but also on github and discord in order to believe it.

Please raise awareness that tables with multiple rows are natural and beautiful and lets normalize this.
Otherwise tomorrow we might end up with a 7x7 chess because 8x8 "looks too crowder".
And I will again post my table, which clearly shows how the number of zh players has been growing over the past 3 years. And to reduce the number of tournaments is to kill this type of chess, which is loved by thousands of players on the lichess website.

https://i.imgur.com/t2NqZcg.jpg
Wow didn´´ t realize my post was commented so much, thank you all for contributing to this and discussing it! If I knew how many people would see this (I´m a noob, have never found time for the forum), I would have phrased it better. Thanks for clarifying that it´ s of course also about the growth of zh players over the years, @Marlonc and for keeping this thread going!
I´ m all for the idea of inofficial arenas in an organized way but I still hope the "official" ones will increase again.
The best and most obvious way to close this topic is to give us zh tournaments the whole day :)
As I said in other threads on the same topic, I'm also in for the inofficial arenas in an organized way, as #6

I also have hopes and applaud the repeated claims, but inofficial arenas is something we can do already as a community without having to wait for any official move.

I of course volunteer to help in such a community effort.
Thank you all for your contributions. Perhaps starting tournaments ourselves is at least a short-term solution, which raises the question of what we want to see.

I have made tournaments in the past, and would be happy to make one for this weekend.

If you want to see a 90 minute special edition of the old-school 4+2 time control, please react with a thumbs-up.

If you want there to be a rating ceiling such as <2100, please react with a horsey

If you have other suggestions, please post them!
As far as creating community tournaments, the lichess API lets you create 12 tournaments each day. It could be setup to create 12 ZH tournaments with varying time controls to happen at the same time every day. This way we could have a set schedule of tournaments. Any thoughts on this approach?

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