Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 19:49:11 06/08/99
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On June 08, 1999 at 18:25:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 08, 1999 at 11:26:10, KarinsDad wrote: > >>Dave, >> >>Could you explain accelerated pairings in a little more detail (so that slow >>people like myself will understand)? >> >>Thanks, >> >>KarinsDad :) > > >Easy. Normally you seed the field, then the top half plays the bottom half >in round 1. After this, you maintain seeding order, and players with equal >scores play in the next round. > >With accelerated pairings, you pair as though the top half were paired against >the bottom half in round 0, so that in round 1, the top half of the top half, >plays the bottom half of the top half. IE you reach stronger competition one >round earlier. But in such events there really are 6-8 programs with real >chances to win, another 6-8 that are fairly close, and then the remainder that >are strong but a ways from the top. Even figuring out who belongs in which >of these groups is difficult. And if the seeding is dong wrong, it _can_ affect >the final result, since tie-breaks favor the higher seed player... because he >has been paired against better opponents... Yeah, one of the other things I had mentioned to the ICCA exec was that the tiebreaks get munged. Dave
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