Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 06:06:08 12/13/04
Hello everyone, There has been much disussion here and via email regarding the time control decided on. In the 50 or so emails I recieved over night, I would say about 60% of the people would like to see the time control changed to 60 + 5 which would push the rounds to about 2.5 hours making the first day about 12.5 hours long not including small gaps for pairings. At the current schedule that I have set out this is what each day (is hopefully) would be: Saturday: 5 rounds x 2 hours = 10 hours + 5 x 15 mins (for pairing) = 11.25 hours. Sunday: 4 round x 2 hours = 8 hours + 4 x 15 mins (for pairing) = 9.25 hours. With changing the time control to 60 + 5 we get: Saturday: 5 rounds x 2.5 hours = 12.5 hours + 1.25 hours for pairing = 13.75 hours Sunday: 4 rounds x 2.5 hours = 10 hours + 1.25 hours for pairing = 11.25 hours. With people joining before the tournament you are looking to be online for more than 14 hours the first day, which makes for a very long day. I will leave it up to the people here. It is afterall your tournament and the _majority_ will rule. Please let's decide now, rather than have people maybe not attend due to it, or complain on game day about games being more "blitz" than usual. Peter
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