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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