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Challenge a stranger who will bail

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Posted 2016-May-01, 10:57

I challenged strangers twice before and each time they bailed after less than 8 boards. Two issues/suggestions about this:

- Score the unplayed boards as 0% in MP or just don't score them at all, giving the final result as N/A. Currently the unplayed boards are considered 50%. I know these results are perfectly meaningless, and only someone who has no sense of self-respect would care about the final result, but well I care about the result at least a little bit :P and it's a bit weird that if my opponent wins board 1 (unbeknownst to them) and then stops playing, that still counts as a 56.25-43.75 win for them.
- If the challenge was a stranger challenge, just re-issue it to someone who hopefully will play all 8 boards.
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Posted 2016-May-13, 06:03

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Posted 2016-May-13, 20:14

We will probably redo the way challenges work in the near future. It feels a bit clunky right now.

Also, the person who doesn't finish playing all boards are technically considered to have withdrawn/lost the match, although maybe that bit isn't clear.
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Posted 2016-May-14, 00:51

If you show
A: +4
B: -4

and results like:
1 3.0
2 1.0
3 0.0
4 0.0
5 0.0
6 0.0
7 0.0
8 0.0

Then no, it is not at all clear that you consider A to have lost the challenge because they bailed after two boards (maybe they even bid and almost finished playing board 3!). Of course if I go and find the precise combination of 3-4 clicks, I can find out that actually there are two boards that have actually been scored, but
A: 4, B: -4
Doesn't suggest that B won. I think you can forgive me in assuming that if A has more points than B on the scoreboard you show me, then A won and B lost, technically, mathematically, and any which way.
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