Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 21:53:12 08/14/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 00:06:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... When I mentioned 10th it should have been 11th. I was basing it on the RR system (1-12, 2-11, 3-10...), not the Swiss. In the Swiss System, Crafty would have been seeded 8th but then round 2 would be a mistake. Peter
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