Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:06:13 08/14/05
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On August 14, 2005 at 23:00:33, Peter Skinner wrote: >On August 14, 2005 at 21:49:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>In thinking about this, this pairing seems to be totally impossible. There is >>no way to be paired against #1 and #2 on rounds 1 and 2, no matter where Crafty >>was seeded. >> >>As I said, "can someone explain this to me, using reasoning that I as a TD would >>be able to follow?" > >I have been thinking the same. > >Is this a Swiss system tournament? If so, Swiss Pairings should have been used. > >If it is a round robin, then who knows what the hell they did. > >Trying this whole scenario in Swiss Perfect makes it seem this would be a Round >Robin event and the seedings were WAY off... Crafty would have had to be seeded >10th to make sense of it other than the two blacks in a row because colors would >alternate in the RR type system. > >Even if I won this event I would seriously question the validity of the pairings >and seedings as they simply do not make any logical sense. > >Peter Using normal swiss, assuming shredder was #1, Crafty would be #7, or if Junior was #1 and Shredder #2, then crafty would have to be #8 to be paired against shredder...
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