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Vienna Mind Sports Festival
Posted By: Chiva Tafazzoli In Response To: Vienna Mind Sports Festival (Bob Koca)
Date: Friday, 1 February 2013, at 7:07 p.m.
There was a thread about it, Stick might help. But here is a simplified explanation:
The so-called FT-Gammon-Format (www.ftbgsystem.com) will be played on all stops of the European Backgammon Tour 2013. . A player can lose 2 times and still win the entire tournament. A player is out as soon as he loses 3 times.
The new format is challenging, exciting and fun and offers a lot of playing opportunity and many rounds. It offers many advantages to both parties, the organizers and the players. While schedules are easy to draft (if played with clocks), there is no handling of registration papers, draws for different brackets (main, progressive fighters, last chance), bye handlings, since everything is done per software, directly online and can be viewed from any computer with internet connection from any corner of the world. The points are calculated automatically and a ranking is in place, round for round. There is better scheduling and filling of side-events and/or no waste of time and endless waiting for players.
Description in a simple manner, using only 8 players as an example: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h.
Each players is randomly given a letter, from a to h by the computer (back-end).
The first 3 round are always very clear:
Round 1 (11 points, clocked, maximum duration 2 hours, start 2 pm): a e / b f / c g / d h Round 2 (11 points, clocked, maximum duration 2 hours, start 4.30 pm): a f / b- g / c h / d e Round 3 (11 points, clocked, maximum duration 2 hours, start 7 pm): a g / b h / c e / f g etc. etc.
Pairings are done as far as possible in a manner to avoid repetition of matches based on a rotation principle, which of course, at a certain point will have to happen. Break times can be integrated in the total bank time of the players, so no delay will ever be reached. No penalty points are needed, since starting time of each round is set and the player ready to play can simply press the button of the clock while waiting for his absent opponent (like in chess tournaments).
In case a player is out and/or an odd number of players is reached, the software picks randomly one letter that will sit out for one round. The next opportunity to sit out will be the next higher number in the alphabet who is still alive, etc.
As soon as players are out, a ranking takes shape until one player remains alive, who is the winner of the tournament.
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