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Why all the mathematicians favor VRR/MWC tournaments over PR tournaments
Posted By: Robert Wachtel In Response To: Why all the mathematicians favor VRR/MWC tournaments over PR tournaments (Mochy)
Date: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, at 7:24 p.m.
As I explained in the thread that began here,
http://www.bgonline.org/forums/webbbs_config.pl?noframes;read=98042
the experience of playing a pure PR tournament is very different, but actually quite a bit easier on the psyche, than that of ordinary competition. You learn to view the opponent's jokers with a Zen-like detachment, knowing that your PR result resides in a different dimension than that of the game itself.
But pure PR tournaments have a downside (also discussed in that thread): they encourage simple-minded play. The more you break contact whenever possible, the lower your overall PR tends to be.
And there is a different kind of luck that effects PR (as discussed in this thread as well). For example, in my match in Norway with Kare Aronsen, the eventual winner of the "ordinary" tournament, I had Kare closed out and was about to win the match. But I left a shot in the bearoff. When he rolled a number from the bar that hit me, he said "Oh, damn." And sure enough, he made some errors in the containment game that ensued. He had played perfectly in our match up till then (0.0), and would have won the whole PR tournament if he had just missed that shot. So the roll that would have been a joker under normal conditions became a PR anti-joker.
If I were pressed to recommend some sort of formula to make a PR-based tournament more rational, I would vote for a distribution of prize money such as that recommended by Rick Janowski: something like 67/33 to the "real" and PR results respectively.
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