As somebody who has actually run tournament in separate threads I'd like to say a few words.
First of all, as I don't know what max is planning then I can't say how badly he needs separate threads but in some cases having it like that really helps and works better both for organisers and players. And our case definitely was one of those because each board was almost like different tournament. I'll explain more about our
Monopoly tournament.
From organisers point of view it made things a lot easier because we could keep track of each board separately and collect actions in a simple way and every time we stored an action, we didn't have to check which board it is and it definitely saved a lot of time when collecting actions. Also, if we had the whole first page under boards and logs (including introduction post, rules etc) then it would have taken a lot more time to wait for all of it to load and find the right posts to edit. Of course, having an index would have eased it a bit but not as simple as it was like we had it.
From players point of view (of course, I can't be 100% sure but perhaps somebody who played in the tourney can agree/disagree) one thing was the same as organisers - waiting for all the boards/text to load would have taken a long time and it would have been just way too colorful, confusing and time consuming to find correct things. Second and more important thing for players was trading and following actions of what others did in their board. In some boards trading became an important part and if there are 40 people posting then the time and energy to go through all the posts would have definitely lowered the trading aspect because going through all the posts and finding necessary ones would have been a pain in the butt.
Finally I want to say that I agree with Gozar completely but at the same time agree with TDs (in a way at least) that people should think things thoroughly through (tongue twister or what?
) before making "sub" threads for their tournaments.
