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I'm sure other people have done similar things but I'd like to collect ideas for new features the community would like to see on lichess. I'd personally like to see Bughouse (ok, i'll admit, that's not a very new idea), Armageddon (5 minutes for white, 4 for black, black has draw odds), and different tournament systems, k.-o. tournaments and swiss tournaments would be nice.
At least these have been discussed before, the problem with bughouse is it doesn't really work well with the way lichess works. (there has been a lichess fork for bughouse but it seems to not be up anymore due to lack of people using it)
Armageddon if agreed upon is easy to do, just make it a 4 minute game and then let Black give his opponent 4 * +15 seconds.

Different tournament formats have existed in the past but were discontinued due to lack of interest and other problems (like most players joining late or dropping out) whereas the current tournament format is popular and works nicely.
Ah, I didn't know other tournament formats have been tried out. If there isn't interest in that, it obviously doesn't need to be done. My idea for Armageddon was to make it a new rating category like Bullet or Blitz. So that it is an official time control on lichess and not some workaround.
Current tournament format is very silly, because loosing fast is better than loosing slowly. And also doubling the points after two wins is too much about luck

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