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Since all the hourly tournaments created by the team seem to go deserted almost always, what about doing something different?

1) Marathons (24h) or semi marathons (12h) are always highly requested by communities. Right now I always see the same hundred players playing the tournaments and I rarely see new players. Marathons are notorious to be events that gather many many players and promote the variant to new players.
You don't have to necessarily offer money prizes, you could for example choose the best game of the tournament and showcase it in the team homepage or invent something original.

2) Weekly special tournaments which again offer something peculiar as prizes or simply you could make something like the Bundesliga or the Elite zh and keep note of the podium of each tournament and then sum up the points in a final leaderboard.

3) From position or special rules tournaments: for example a no castling variation but for crazyhouse. Potentially even a set up position which should obviously be balanced for black and which offers different strategies. This is certainly a tough challenge in zh since white is hugely advantaged, but the good thing is that I believe FP variants games are always unrated by default.
I mean we could experiment new things and see how they work out.

Said that, I appreciate your work so far so thank you.
Yes the hourly tournaments are deserted, but for now I don't think it hurts to have them anyway.

1) I love the idea of marathons, I could ask lichess if we could get a BBB (front-page link to the arena) for such arenas, just like we had recently for the 3000+ Arena. It would make sure we get a decent amount of players in order to keep the marathon going for 12/24h.

2) Special Prizes like what? I do keep track of every Elite/RS Arenas, I could definitely publish leaderboards for each of them. Will have to think in which format, but in principle that's a good idea.

3) Lichess doesn't allow "From position" tournaments for variants, only for chess unfortunately :( We could do it on pychess.org though, worth considering for sure, but wouldn't get as much players involved...

Any experimental ideas are welcome!

P.S: I don't know how to get notified when people post forum posts like that, if anyone creates new forum threads like this one, feel free to notify me directly on lichess so I can respond to it asap
If you find sponsors, you could give wings to different places, for example, for 1-3-5-25-50-100 and so on. This will attract a lot of new players
i support from postion games in variant but as thibault once said from position is allready like a a variant i believe he said it but maybe i say it not exactly right but i think from position games in variants on lichess don't work on www.pychess.org you can play from positons games in crazyhouse though

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