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Subject: Re: 12th WCCC, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, July 4th-12th 200

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:52:52 12/04/03

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On December 03, 2003 at 16:25:40, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On December 03, 2003 at 05:21:39, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>
>>when you plan such an event you can be never sure how many participants will
>>show up - e.g. in Graz they had hoped for 30 participants - that in mind, 11
>>rounds would be very fine...
>
>I don't think that this is correct. To my knowledge, 5 rounds is all that is
>required for up to 32 participants. 11 is still way too many. 11 is enough for
>over 2000 participants. So even if they expect 30 participants (which they
>shouldn't), 5 rounds is plenty.


This is correct.  11 is simply too many for 30 players, much less 16.  May
as well do 15 to make it a RR...



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