(I was looking for some info about a different issue in a tournament) but, just saying, it's something that happens to me too. I always assume that some of these tournaments are tied in priorities criteria and get organized semi-randomly, and as you say some names appears by repeat just for luck or not.
It would be more useful if it could be more effective in that regard.
When I use the daily tournament list, I often see errors.
Searching for Upcoming tournaments sorted by "Time Control (Faster)" there are pages of tournaments with a time control of "1 day". However, when paging through them, tournaments will repeat from one page to the next. I've seen a single tournament appear on 5 different pages. This makes me wonder if I'm missing a lot of trounaments, because their place is taken by a repeat.
I've seen this with "Time Cotrol (Slower)", "Max Players", and "Registered Players". I haven't seen it with "Start Date" and "Alphabetical".
Have other people seen this? Is it a known issue with the tournament lists? Is there a workaround?
Thanks
Chris