Howto play arena tournament with kids?

I want to play a private tournament with my 3 kids.

The first thing I tried was swiss arena putting us all into one team, setting rounds to six, expecting to play 2 games against each kid with reversed colors. But when round 4 was about to begin it just ended.

So I wanted to try playing arena with them, but due to their accounts being restricted to 'kids mode' there is no way to share the link with them, because 'this player doesn't accept messages'.

And on their account I can't find the tournament, although I explicitly restricted it to our team (using an api call).

So how can I play a tournament with them?

For a team, team tournaments show up on the team page : lichess.org/team/wolfpower

>The first thing I tried was swiss arena putting us all into one team, setting rounds to six, expecting to play 2 games against each kid with reversed colors. But when round 4 was about to begin it just ended.

That's expected. Swiss is not the same as round robin.

If it's with your kids, you could also make the tournament on a sheet and let them send challenge to each other. Tiebreakers are not hard to calculate in case of ties, you just need to know the method (and you'll definitely find it on the web).

In a swiss tournament, there isn't any possibility to play the same opponent twice, that's why your tournament ended after 3 rounds.

@TBest said in #2:
> For a team, team tournaments show up on the team page : lichess.org/team/wolfpower

Somehow it wasn't visible

As a workaround I created a classroom. Messages send from there pass through 'kid mode' so you can work with links.

@MrDarevil2 said in #3:
> If it's with your kids, you could also make the tournament on a sheet and let them send challenge to each other. Tiebreakers are not hard to calculate in case of ties, you just need to know the method (and you'll definitely find it on the web).

I'd like to have a non-manual method

> In a swiss tournament, there isn't any possibility to play the same opponent twice, that's why your tournament ended after 3 rounds.

Yeah, true. You can control the round start in swiss mode and all players play the same amount of games.
Arena on the other side is much less enjoyable.