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#3
I also like the idea. 48h makes it possible for the "casuals" to play, then sleep and then play again on the next day while the "cracks" can take the full 48h. I wonder, what does the rest think about that?
Strawpoll: http://www.strawpoll.me/10936338
#4
It'd be interesting to have some statistics on the Summer Marathon, to see how many people played for the full 24 hours.
#5
Personally, I think if you are a so called "casual" in the first place you shouldn't be taking part in the marathon seriously, as it is a endurance test for a reason. I wouldn't cater to their need for sleep in an event that is obviously meant to be unhealthy (and awesome), not to mention the approaching dangerous toll you would be putting on the players who want to participate fully by doubling the tournament time.
#6
When does it stop being a marathon, and start just being a running total of games over the past couple of days that happened to be auto-paired like a tournament? I'm intentionally being a little bit silly in saying that, but at the same time, I think it should be at the very least humanly possible to stay up for the full tournament while constantly playing, "marathon" style. At the 2 day point, with constant chess, people might start hallucinating!

What might be interesting, though, is changing when it starts depending on what season it is (while still keeping the 24h format). So summer marathons could work out to benefit people in one part of the world, while winter marathons would benefit people on the other side, with the spring and autumn ones being in between. Since lichess is (as far as I know) mostly English speaking, you could probably even line it up with which N/S hemisphere the most English speakers are in and give them the advantage during their summer; that is, during the "winter" marathon, start it in a way that gives Australians the advantage. Could also do the same thing with overall population densities if it's too rude to be biased toward English speaking countries, and just figure out what longitude gives the highest percentage of people south of the equator. That sounds a little harder to figure out, though, and perhaps rather overthinking the issue.

Just to be clear, you get the advantage if the tournament starts in the early morning in your time zone, right? Because that way you can get up early and stay up late to do the whole thing, or else just get up at any time and have it going during the day. If people disagree with me there, well, the entire point of discussing this seems moot anyway since it's unclear who is currently getting the short end of the stick!

As for time control, well, I don't really have any suggestions for that. 3+0 seems fine but so does 5+0. I don't see why it should be changed but I also wouldn't object. Devs know best.
#7
if you aren't intending to play the 24 hours, starting late gives a super clear advantage because pairings are mostly based on the amount of tournament points. so there are some timezones which have a slight advantage but i don't think it's very relevant
#8
I reckon a bullet marathon would be fun. Playing the longer games takes more out of me because I have more pressure to make good moves. But I guess the toll on your wrist would be quite something ...
#9
Thanks guys! #8 bullet is very bad it has no aim, you can not think and you just play to play and see if the opponent has lost on time!
I also had another idea about marathons:
So we have this tournaments U2000 and this stuff.
Why do not we make the same with marathon and if you would like to play both then you can go to the first one and then the second one. ( so the first marathon- U1600, five days passed U2000- and the in a week the Marathon for everybody.

But for the marathons that are U1600 and U2000 are only have prizes for the third, second and the first place. And when someone won the cup on their profile it would be wrote:
" champion of U1600 Marathon!"

Get the idea?
What do you think?
#10
#1 tell me a country whose resident would be more willing to play for 24 hours:)

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