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Punishment for missing a swiss tourney

You can be unpaired during a round in a Swiss system by pressing the "WITHDRAW" button. Then you can join the tournament again by re-entering with the same button.

Always use the "WITHDRAW" button to cleanly remove yourself from a tournament.
@pascalg said in #11:
> Always use the "WITHDRAW" button to cleanly remove yourself from a tournament.

As I mentioned in another thread, "withdraw" is not clearly designed as a button (at least in dark mode, what I am using).

I had to leave in the middle of a swiss tournament, and because I did not understand that the mere word "withdraw" is a clickable button I decided to log out from lichess, assuming that lichess computer would understand that a logged out member can't play and can't be paired. Nevertheless I was banned for 24h...

Edit: to be precise: I searched the tournament-page for a button to leave. I did not see anything that looks like a button. And I looked for links (underlined blue words) but could not identify any that would be like "leave the tournament". And "withdraw" looks like a simple word on the page, not like a link and even less like a button.

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