Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:45:43 08/14/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 00:32:40, ERIQ wrote: >After one good bottle of wine the td's decided to just throw up the pairing >cards and match players and their colors the way the cards fell. > >Or maybe they just didn't like poor crafty and decided to get it killed by the >two top programs, but then crafty proved it's worth and the plan backfired and >now crafty has great chances to win the whole event so the td's then started >drinking! > >just a thought :) I'd now guess that they paired this as a pure round robin, which typically has two players getting the same colors on two consecutive rounds, when you have an odd number of rounds (an even number of players). Problem is, they aren't publicizing their decision to do this. Of course they aren't publicizing much of anything, so no surprise...
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