Excellent post, @lighteye! Computing the data from all these tournaments is not so easy, btw :D Thanks for your work and sincere opinion and suggestions.
It certainly raises an interesting debate on what to encourage when organizing a chess tournament involving both chess players and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. At the moment, the season we are organizing is more focused on competitiveness, so rewarding the top 8 follows that spirit. However, what you propose is also valid. It encourages participation although it decreases competitiveness to some extent. The good thing about our community is that we have three tournaments, so we have a few alternatives for the prize system.
We can't implement these ideas in the current season as everything is ready to go, but we will definitely implement them in an upcoming season because they are reasonable, interesting and maybe many can potentially agree with you.
Actually, computing was a piece of cake 😃 – Excel file can be made in minutes. Entering the data lasted much longer, but that is because I had for tournaments to enter. If you do it one by one, it is quick&easy with automatic calculations. If you send an email, you can have already made Excel calculator that you can adapt for new tournaments.
Here is a download link with the Excel file that will last seven days:
https://we.tl/t-JHsRE9fvSa
Very kind of you, @lighteye. Thank you!
You are welcome, @chessbrotherspro, glad if I could help. Now we have Sonneborn–Berger score system for Swiss tournaments and Lighteye score system for Hive tournaments 😉
Haha, yes, we do :)