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Time controls for the weekly arena

If you want to have a new time control for the weekly arenas you can post it here.
Please give a thumb up comment on the posts with the time controls you like instead of making a new post for it to avoid spam and confusion.
I like faster time controls because I think I'm better with those. :)
I think that the quirks of Lichess's regular variant arena schedules have determined that all of the 1+0 Horde Arenas (of which I think there is only one or two) are in the middle of the night for me, so personally I would appreciate 1+0. 1/2+0 would be fun as well.

Regardless, I think the most important part is to avoid existing horde arena times whenever possible. The current time (9am Pacific / 4pm UTC) isn't great because there's a 2+0 Horde Arena that's already in that time slot. There's lots of gaps where no Horde Arenas are going on, so the Weekly Arena could fit into one of those. On top of that, I agree with the point that somebody made in the chat of the last 3+2 Arena, which is that 3+2 for only a half hour is much too short. If the arena is weekly, I think that warrants a longer arena length—at least an hour, if not more.

Thanks for organizing these!

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