Originally posted by RookRAK Hey, if we can get one more eligible player to sign up, we'll have an even number and can get this tournament started. Who should we recruit? Both PBE6 and Phlabby were fairly frequent contributors in the early days of the dead-thread.
Who is going to do the pairing up? I know the first round is top half vs. bottom half (with 20 players 1 plays 11, 2 plays 12 .... 10 plays 20) but after the first round it gets more complicated. The best way to determine it is using a tournament manager program. I believe I have one somewhere.
Also is each match a black and white game? This will wreak hell on the later pairings (as in a standard swiss a single game is played).
RookRAK hit me up on MSN (xanthosnz@gmail.com), yahoo or AIM (xanthosnz) or via PM and we'll work out details.
Originally posted by XanthosNZ Who is going to do the pairing up? I know the first round is top half vs. bottom half (with 20 players 1 plays 11, 2 plays 12 .... 10 plays 20) but after the first round it gets more complicated. The best way to determine it is using a tournament manager program. I believe I have one somewhere.
Also is each match a black and white game? This will wreak ...[text shortened]... up on MSN (xanthosnz@gmail.com), yahoo or AIM (xanthosnz) or via PM and we'll work out details.
We're going to play a pair of games each round, black/white, so you're right in this way it differs from traditional Swiss. However, that takes color assignment out of the assignment equation - leaving a totally straightforward algorithm.
There is software to do this, but it won't be needed. With only 20 or so people, and no color issue, and no byes, it's 5 minutes of work at most per round.
Originally posted by RookRAK Hey, if we can get one more eligible player to sign up, we'll have an even number and can get this tournament started. Who should we recruit? Both PBE6 and Phlabby were fairly frequent contributors in the early days of the dead-thread.
Originally posted by RookRAK We're going to play a pair of games each round, black/white, so you're right in this way it differs from traditional Swiss. However, that takes color assignment out of the assignment equation - leaving a totally straightforward algorithm.
There is software to do this, but it won't be needed. With only 20 or so people, and no color issue, and no byes, it's 5 minutes of work at most per round.
I suppose if you view both 2-0 and 1.5-0.5 as wins and 1-1 as a draw then it works for result matching.
Originally posted by XanthosNZ I suppose if you view both 2-0 and 1.5-0.5 as wins and 1-1 as a draw then it works for result matching.
I'm guessing he's just going to consider the point totals as what they are. So in the second round, people with 2 points are matched up, people with 1.5 are matched up, etc.
Originally posted by Nordlys You mean you want to start this before 2006? 😕
No pressing need to start. I just hadn't gotten any new entries today so though maybe we had everyone who was interested. No problem doing nothing until after the holidays.
Originally posted by The Plumber Suggestion: Post an official start date for the tourney, and use that date as the "ratings on this date determine seeds" point.
No! Seed us now, now I say! Before it all goes wrong again!
Originally posted by The Plumber Suggestion: Post an official start date for the tourney, and use that date as the "ratings on this date determine seeds" point.
That's a good idea.
I will generate the pairings on New Years Day - no promise on time of day.
I completely forgot that you created this thread, RookRAK. Looks like I'm already on the list! This should be quite an interesting tournament; I believe this is the first one ever created because of poster contribution to a thread.
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