Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 06:52:56 12/13/04
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On December 13, 2004 at 09:06:08, Peter Skinner wrote: >Hello everyone, > >There has been much disussion here and via email regarding the time control >decided on. > >In the 50 or so emails I recieved over night, I would say about 60% of the >people would like to see the time control changed to 60 + 5 which would push the >rounds to about 2.5 hours making the first day about 12.5 hours long not >including small gaps for pairings. > >At the current schedule that I have set out this is what each day (is hopefully) >would be: > >Saturday: > >5 rounds x 2 hours = 10 hours + 5 x 15 mins (for pairing) = 11.25 hours. > >Sunday: > >4 round x 2 hours = 8 hours + 4 x 15 mins (for pairing) = 9.25 hours. > >With changing the time control to 60 + 5 we get: > >Saturday: > >5 rounds x 2.5 hours = 12.5 hours + 1.25 hours for pairing = 13.75 hours > >Sunday: > >4 rounds x 2.5 hours = 10 hours + 1.25 hours for pairing = 11.25 hours. > >With people joining before the tournament you are looking to be online for more >than 14 hours the first day, which makes for a very long day. > >I will leave it up to the people here. It is afterall your tournament and the >_majority_ will rule. > >Please let's decide now, rather than have people maybe not attend due to it, or >complain on game day about games being more "blitz" than usual. > >Peter Despite the fact that Zappa appears to be stronger at longer timecontrols, I would prefer the shorter timecontrol. If we were all in the same timezone I wouldn't have any problem with a 14 hour tournament (that is 8:00 AM - 10:00 PM, definitely doable) but when you consider that we have a timezone spread of 10 hours or so (thank god for the Pacific ocean and only a few Australian competitors) my 8:00-10:00 becomes 5:00-7:00 West Coast, and 2:00AM - 4:00AM for our European friends. Don't forget we already had people falling asleep on us last year in Europe. Another possibility: extend CCT to a friday which would make it 3 rounds per day. We could then have even a 90 5 timecontrol with no particular problems (and more suspense!). I don't mind taking a vacation day, but this may not go over well with a lot of people. Anyway, I thought I'd offer it. anthony P.S. I definitely need a place to insert my cool new Zappa logo somewhere! (see http://volker-pittlik.name/zappa.html)
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