Number of rounds for club tournament

Hello everyone,

my Club and I are currently trying to set up a suiss tournament with 7 or 9 rounds. However, we faced the problem of chess.com automatically reducing the number of rounds according to the number of participants. With 7 player, we were only to play 3 rounds at max. With 9 players we got 9 players at least.

Can we set the number of rounds so that it won't be changed by chess.com?

Thank you very much in advance!

That isn't currently possible. The maximum number of rounds is half of the players at the event start, rounded down. If that number is less than the configured number of rounds, that will become the number of rounds.

Thanks for the information; I was wondering about this! I have been hosting live tournaments for my club, which is a real, brick-and-mortar chess club that is unable to meet due to quarantine. My members and I have been wondering why the number of rounds are continually being cut short. It's been frustrating when I promise them five rounds of chess in an evening and it ends up only being three.

Hopefully this changes soon; it would be nice to be able to set a static number of rounds. I don't understand what the drawback is to playing more games? You just ensure that the eventual winners are more deserving, and there is more wiggle-room to rebound from early losses. Maybe the max rounds could at least be raised to 3/4 of the players or something? Though in my view, there'd be nothing wrong with even a round robin -- say 10 players and 9 rounds. 

In the last tournament (held yesterday) I divided it into two sections (two separate tournaments), since at our club we have players with US Chess ratings of 300 to 2300 and everything in between. So if I had them combined we could have played the full five rounds, but many games would be huge mismatches. Since I divided it up, it cut the number of rounds short (4 in one section and 3 in the other).

So it appears I have to choose between a decent number of games or more fairly matched games. Kind of annoying but I'll try to make it work....

Interestingly, this is what it says in the support area, which contradicts both what Martin_Stahl said and my experience. Not to mention, this policy makes zero sense:

• Important note about Rounds: A certain number of players are required for the tournament to keep going the number of rounds chosen. The number of players needed to have a 5 round tournament, for example, is 2^5, or 32 players (for 6 rounds it is 2^6 players, for 7 rounds 2^7 players, and so on). If you choose 5 rounds, but only 30 players show up, for example, the tournament will end at 4 rounds. So the number of rounds you choose here is really the maximum number of rounds you want to be possible. If 200 players show up, for example, instead of ending at 7 rounds, the tournament would end at 5 rounds because you chose 5 rounds.  

From https://support.chess.com/article/1205-how-can-i-create-a-live-blitz-bullet-rapid-tournament