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Tournament entry conditions

I recently saw these, and those seem great to
a) prevent dupes
b) dont make low rated players lower
c) strong players able to play other strong players

Big Thanks to lichess team because of this amazing feature!
I doubt that this feature will result in happier users, but we'll see!
#2 I personally think it is very important to take account of those in particular who have played on the site for more than say 3 days in total, and ignore newer accounts both in the discussion and in the voting process of how the entry requirements for how the official site tournaments are set up. And on topic for this thread it is great that extra options are given to people creating user-created custom tournaments.

It is the existing longer term members which are constantly suffering e.g. in yesterdays weekly blitz (lichess.org/tournament/dbOJfZxP) when a newish 2600 rated opponent inflicted carnage for multiple hours. Surprise surprise they were cheating and removed now as being the featured winner. Anyway, I am happy to find retrospectively today I won yesterday's daily bullet.

Cheers, K
@Kingscrusher-YouTube
I̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶u̶r̶n̶a̶m̶e̶n̶t̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶d̶o̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶e̶r̶ ̶l̶i̶s̶t̶,̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶m̶e̶n̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶c̶r̶i̶b̶e̶.̶
EDIT:
I found one of the players has a sandbagging/boosting label and has apparently been removed from the tournament.
#4 My personal opinion could not be more different (that all players' opinions should be heard and an attempt to understand them should be made).

I hear what you're saying about newish players winning tournaments; hopefully this will help.
Wow, I didn't even know people could cheat in bullet KC? (thought it would be too fast to put the moves into an engine etc...)
@Stiltstiltstilts wrong.
one can easily program a bot to play the best move, also there was a tool to show the engine lines immediately on the board IIRC.
Cheating is not necessarily putting moves to an engine. There are many methods for cheating.

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