Author: Johan Hutting
Date: 05:55:24 02/01/04
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On February 01, 2004 at 05:55:11, José Carlos wrote: >On January 31, 2004 at 21:26:00, Will Singleton wrote: > snip >>I think it was correct to make it right. If the wrong pairings were played, the >>noise would have been even worse than it was. But in the future, a procedure >>ought to be in place to deal with that situation. >> >>One thing that might help would be not to start the games prior to the start >>time, as many were doing. We also might want to wait for the TD to verify >>things and to give the "go" signal. >> >>Will imho all authors should verify the results when requested by Volker. He did so every round, yet no one responded. > > We were already more than half an hour late. If certain people would implement egtb that would be solved >:) > Next time we should agree to fix >the mistake on the next round OR make sure there's enough time to make the >pairings and check them between rounds. Either return to the 2 weekends formula, >which is my preferred, or make the games faster and with less increment, >something like 30 1. I prefer the two weekend setup myself, however imho re-pairing was the only good solution. Things get screwed up even if you fix them a round later. > Particularly I consider totally unacceptable to stop the games when: all of >them are running, even one of them has finished (Chezzz-Chiron IIRC), The chiron author resigned because he had to sleep and couldn't leave the computer on. Let alone that he wasn't in a scoregroup that was affected by the altered scores. > the round >started half an hour late and people is connected for many hours without a >minute of rest. > I don't mean to critisize Volker. He does what he can and I appreciate it. I >mean we all should help to make this tournament better. I agree, Volker does a great job. I hope we can get some things sorted out regarding the pairings for the next CCT. Anyway, see you in 5 mins, good luck ;)
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