Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:13:55 06/08/99
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On June 08, 1999 at 03:00:22, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On June 08, 1999 at 01:36:33, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>The web page http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~wccc99/ reports that standard >>(non-accelerated) pairings will be used, but from my conversation with some of >>the ICCA executive, they do intend to use accelerated pairings (mainly because >>it will force more games to be played between the strongest opponents.) >> >>So I am writing this so that everyone is not shocked when they get there. :-) > >I predict a big fight. > >bruce I don't know who the TD is, but you can tell him for me that this is _stupid_. All he has to do is ask _any_ legitimate TD and he'll discover that accelerated pairings are _wrong_ when you have more than log2(players) rounds. And since 2^7 (7 rounds) is > number of players, this is useless... Some people never learn. Or they refuse to learn. :)
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