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Subject: Re: No surprise in rankings after 5 rounds?

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 08:00:30 08/22/01

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On August 21, 2001 at 14:40:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 21, 2001 at 13:58:22, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On August 21, 2001 at 11:42:42, Roy Eassa wrote:
>>
>>>The top 4 are Junior, Tiger, Fritz, and Shredder.
>>>
>>>That can't come as a huge suprise to anybody.
>>
>>The surprise is that Ferret is not in the top 4.  Recent contests where Ferret
>>participated:
>>
>>First Place:
>>http://www.vrichey.de/cct3/cct3gamestab.htm
>>
>>Second Place:
>>http://www.uni-paderborn.de/~wccc99/
>>
>>I am a bit surprised at the current position.  I am also curious as to what
>>Bruce thinks about the current run of games for Ferret.
>
>
>This is a tournament with too many rounds and too few players.  With 4 more
>rounds left, the current standings mean absolutely nothing.  Because you can
>bet that the top half of the field is going to have to play everybody up there,
>and that hasn't happened yet.  It will get _very_ bloody the last four rounds
>and the current standings won't mean much then...

I think the number of rounds is quite adequate to the number of players. Or it
would if the field were more even.
José.



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