Re: [pbmserv] 2nd Annual Quoridor Tournament

[Randall Bart <barticus@att.net>]

'Twas 01:15 PM -0600 on Sunday 12/21/2003 when markthom wrote:
> As a format, I think the feeling in the first tournament was that the 
> round robins should have at least 5 players, since 4-player
> rounds led to too many 3-way ties. So I'm thinking that I'll divide the 
> players into rounds of no fewer than 5 players and no more
> than, say, 8. (What if the number of players doesn't divide evenly? If 
> there were, for instance, 17 players, would it be okay to
> have two rounds of 6 and one of 5? Hopefully we'll get a nice, composite 
> number of players.)

A double round robin of 8 players is 14 games each.  That's a lot of games 
to be moving in each day.  Mismatched pool sizes is not a problem.  They do 
it in professional sports.

Minimum pool size of 5 is a nice goal, but it means if 9 players sign up 
they'll compete in a single pool, and with 13, 14 or 19 players we'll have 
a pool of 7.  I think pools of 4 are okay with a double round robin.

Last time we had three rounds:  4 pools in the first round, 2 pools in the 
second round, and a final round with three players.  Are you looking to 
keep it to two rounds?
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