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It's very simple:
1) So that participants can see that their save has been successfully submitted, and also that it has been accepted or rejected, without having to contact the organizer again and worry about it. ;)
2) Agree, if there is only 1 player in the participant table, then there is simply no point in participating, because without a quorum, it is no longer a game.
3) Usually, renowned players who have signed up for the tournament send in their saves + add significant intrigue to the game, attracting new and old participants to the tournament simply by their presence.
Example (Fireball, vbn, Qwerty, Dmitriy_AS, etc.).
4) With the introduction of such a table, at least some order has been established in the naming of the save file sent by the host. Otherwise, they'll send something like =34gfd.gm1, and you'll have to figure out who sent it.
5) Convenience for summarizing the results by the tournament organizers.[/I]
The arguments, however, are weak.
1. Ideally, the host should have a template email stating that the save has been received. As soon as they receive it, they immediately send back a confirmation. But instead, the host receives the email, goes to the forum, edits their post, checks if they messed up the formatting. Which is simpler?
2. And this is a plus??? This is a terrible minus of the whole system. I would even say, the main one. Without a preliminary table of players, there would simply be few participants, and with it, there won't be any at all.
3. Strong players communicate with each other about whether they will play or not anyway. And regarding "attracting" - the situation is exactly the opposite. See point 2.
4-5. In general, the arguments are far-fetched, I won't even comment on them.
So, what do we have? I see a small plus only in the first point and a huge minus in the second. The third is neutral, in principle. Where is the "very simple"?
P.S. The system that was created on HP is absolutely imperfect and cannot be implemented on our site.
Regarding the third criterion, DmitriyAS, in my opinion, explained in detail why this is bad.
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Yes, I think it's time to clean up the topic, moving posts with discussions about the tournament rules to the appropriate section.