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The "easy" solution is to put a cap on tournament size.

Apart from when Agadmator wants his fans to be in the same tournament as Magnus Carlsen etc., there is basically no need to hold chess tournaments with over 1000 players.

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The lichess marathon tournaments usually are a lot more than 1000 players.

For example, a recent 24-hour marathon had 24,000 players. Though not all playing at once, surely there were periods of time in which several thousand were playing/pairing at once.

https://lichess.org/tournament/autumn21

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