Unable to join tournaments

[cat2phat]

Step by step

Clicked Tournaments tab
Double clicked tournament
Relogged to verify tournament join
Upon relog an error message pops up with the same details found in the forever.log

Forever.log

2013-10-18 13:12:30,759 ERROR faf.client Error dispatching JSON: {"rating_mean": 1384.95, "country": "DE", "number_of_games": 283, "rating_deviation": 65.4628, "command": "player_info", "avatar": null, "ladder_rating_mean": 965.556, "login": "unbreakable", "ladder_rating_deviation": 351.5ia
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "client\_clientwindow.pyc", line 1634, in process
File "json\__init__.pyc", line 326, in loads
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 366, in decode
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 382, in raw_decode
ValueError: Expecting , delimiter: line 1 column 224 (char 224)
2013-10-18 13:12:30,760 ERROR faf.main Uncaught exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tourneys\_tournamentswidget.pyc", line 157, in readDataFromServer
File "tourneys\_tournamentswidget.pyc", line 162, in process
File "tourneys\_tournamentswidget.pyc", line 169, in receiveJSON
File "json\__init__.pyc", line 326, in loads
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 366, in decode
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 382, in raw_decode
ValueError: Expecting , delimiter: line 1 column 2913 (char 2913)
2013-10-18 13:13:47,260 ERROR faf.main Uncaught exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tourneys\_tournamentswidget.pyc", line 157, in readDataFromServer
File "tourneys\_tournamentswidget.pyc", line 162, in process
File "tourneys\_tournamentswidget.pyc", line 169, in receiveJSON
File "json\__init__.pyc", line 326, in loads
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 366, in decode
File "json\decoder.pyc", line 384, in raw_decode
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded

[Ze_PilOt]

Looks like a firewall/antivirus issue. Can you check it?

[cat2phat]

Only antivirus/firewall I have is what comes with Windows; Microsoft Security Essentials and Windows Firewall. Neither alerted me of anything blocked.

None the less, I did disable the Windows Firewall and joined the 1v1 tournament the day after it ran. I closed FAF and re-opened without issue. However, I did not show up on the sign up sheet. Could be that the tourney already ended. Not sure.

I did the same with the 2v2 tourney. Same results. I assume because the tourney had already started.

[Ze_PilOt]

Yes you can't register on started tournaments.