Tournaments That Are All... For Americans

@Ishaan4e said in #20:
> because almost 70 percent of lichess users are in asia

making up numbers does not help make your point. it makes you look like a liar only.

@glbert said in #21:
> making up numbers does not help make your point. it makes you look like a liar only.

i have given an estimate because 4.69 billion people live in Asia and the worlds population is 7.9 billion

@Ishaan4e said in #22:
> i have given an estimate because 4.69 billion people live in Asia and the worlds population is 7.9 billion

you gave a (terrible) estimate, but you framed it as a fact. the estimate is terrible, because there is no reason to believe that lichess users are distributed uniformly geographically. quite the opposite, considering chess is way less popular in asia than in europe.

and here's another reason why i believe your estimate is terrible:
afaik, lichess schedules these tournaments for when most users are online. if 70% of lichess users were living in asia, then the daily peaks for lichess users would not be reached at the time these tournaments are held.

@glbert said in #23:
> afaik, lichess schedules these tournaments for when most users are online. if 70% of lichess users were living in asia, then the daily peaks for lichess users would not be reached at the time these tournaments are held.

They are at peak because many people from asia stay up at night to play them

@Ishaan4e said in #24:
> They are at peak because many people from asia stay up at night to play them

what are you talking about? lichess has more than 100k concurrent players at peak. these tournaments usually have less than 5k concurrent players, way less. even if all of those 5k players happened to be asians who stayed up late just for the tournament, than that would still be little compared to the total amount of players, and give you no indication whatsoever about where most players live. how about you just stop making up stuff? the idea that more of these tournaments should be at other times is completely reasonable even if only 10% of lichess players are from asia. but all the obviously bullshit claims will mean people will not take this topic serious at all.

@glbert said in #25:
> what are you talking about? lichess has more than 100k concurrent players at peak. these tournaments usually have less than 5k concurrent players, way less. even if all of those 5k players happened to be asians who stayed up late just for the tournament, than that would still be little compared to the total amount of players, and give you no indication whatsoever about where most players live. how about you just stop making up stuff? the idea that more of these tournaments should be at other times is completely reasonable even if only 10% of lichess players are from asia. but all the obviously bullshit claims will mean people will not take this topic serious at all.

ok fine i give up i don't want to waste your or my time

@Ishaan4e said in #26:
> ok fine i give up i don't want to waste your or my time

way too late for that already, friend.

Yeah, there are many asians but many tournaments get organized in the comfort of Americans... Can you please see the country list wise players and then organize tournament???

The best way is to have two tournaments, one each for one hemisphere. Or alternatively, count up users by hemisphere and distribute important events proportionally over the year. What is actual composition of Lichess users by hemisphere? Is there any stats?

Lichess could have different tournament times for different regions. You could maybe set a region in account settings if they did that?