Enhancement: Schedulable entry per brewer increases

[JLowe-N]

Competitions fill up fast these days, often within the first hour. The only lever we have to pull is constraining the total entries per brewer or per style. To allow more Brewers the opportunity to enter a competition, it would be useful to have a rolling entry limit per user following a schedule.

Day 1: 4 entries per brewer
Day 2: 8 entries per brewer
Day 3: 12 entries per brewer
Day 4: 24 entries per brewer

The best schedule may differ per competition, but the ability to increase the entry limit per brewer over time would be useful.

This ensures competitions can both hit their target entries, while also giving more Brewers a chance to compete.

[ercousin]

+1 to this, I would also use this

[geoffhumphrey]

Hi @JLowe-N - thanks for the suggestion. I too have seen the "storm the gates" phenomenon compound in recent months and agree that this would be a great way of letting the system take care of something that is a manual process now. For the next version, 2.7.1, this will be the only enhancement that will be included in the package.

The way it will work is that Admins, via Admin Dashboard > Preferences > Site Preferences, will be able to specify up to four tiers of per participant entry limits, each bound to a number of days from the entry open date.

Like so:

Participants can review all scheduled entry limits by going to the Info page. Under the Per Entrant Limits heading, there will be a table:

Note that the current limit is highlighted in blue. If there is an overall per-entry limit, it will be in the final row in the table along with the entry close date.

Participants will also be advised of the current limit in the account summary sidebar section of their My Account page:

The goal is to release 2.7.1 by the middle of August, 2024.

[JLowe-N]

Thanks for accepting and building this feature! This looks just like I imagined and better with the clear communication on limit steps.

[jimmyorkin]

I want a slightly derogatory handle for the folks that "Storm the Gates". "Stormers" or "Gaters"?

[JLowe-N]

Gracious sponsors of our competitions ;) It can be tough to predict competition demand such that we know ahead of time N entries per brewer allows us to both fill the competition and allow a wider range of brewers the opportunity for feedback. This scheduled roll out will strike a better balance and hopefully make the registration period a bit less stressful and less frustrating for everyone.

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[hirendu]

This is an awesome feature. Could we get this feature on the hosted comp (chc.brewingcompetitions.com)?

[geoffhumphrey]

It will be incorporated into version 2.7.1. Once that has been tested and I'm confident it's ready for release, all hosted sites will be updated.

[geoffhumphrey]

@hirendu - please note that 2.7.1 was released earlier today - all hosted installations have been updated. You can now utilize this feature for the CHC!