Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:40:33 11/10/02
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On November 09, 2002 at 15:55:48, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >9 rounds are too many for the number of participants playing in a swiss. You end >up with weird pairing toward the end of the tournament where a high ranked >program gets paired with some program ranked in the middle, because the high >ranked program has played all the programs ranked higher already. This makes the >last round a bit of an anticlimax. Yuck! > >It makes more sense to play 5 rounds of 2 games each for a total of 10 games. 5 >rounds are perfect for the number of contestants entered and now the pairings >will always make some sense particularly because color allocation will not be a >problem. You will also get more games played between the high ranked programs >which will lend more interest to the contest. > >To me the choice is clear cut. 5 rounds of 2 games each PLEASE! Last time there were like 50 participants (I do not remember the actual number), so five rounds are not enough.
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