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We All Have Our Ideas -- My Personal Take (not USBGF!!) .... Long
Posted By: Bill Riles In Response To: Is anything stopping any one from running their own giants list? (Bob Koca)
Date: Thursday, 16 June 2016, at 3:04 p.m.
I'm confident the backgammon community working together can come up with a great, credible, accepted system. These are just some of my ideas I wrote down several months ago. I'm sure others could help refine them, maybe reorder certain criteria, etc. But this sort of thing could be a start.
GIANTS OF BACKGAMMON
Thoughts, Ideas, and Suggestions
13 March 2016
EXECUTION/ADMINISTRATION
• Giants Committee formed of representatives from JBL, EUBGF, USBGF, UKBGF, BMAB, and one or two legacy members from the current Giant Committee.
• Develop a specific website with a domain name such as GiantsofBackgammon.com, if available. All information, data, voting, results, etc. occurs on the website. It would not be affiliated with any individual club or tournament.
• Enlist/enroll member countries and federations from around the globe.
• Utilize an electronic voting system such as currently employed, and successfully used numerous times, by the USBGF. No mailed or faxed ballots would be accepted.
GIANTS CANDIDATES
• The Committee will develop a list each biennium of two hundred approved candidates for the Giants of Backgammon voting ballot. No write-in votes will be allowed.
• The Committee will develop a prioritized list of candidate selection criteria. In descending order:
o Sixty-four top vote recipients from prior cycle of election.
o Each affiliate country (by their federation or designated representative) nominates their top four players. Committee sorts all countries into four quartiles – based on size, number of players, performance data, or whatever, to be determined – and top quartile gets all four of their players on the ballot, second quartile gets three, third quartile gets two, and fourth quartile gets one.
o Anyone cashing in the championship division of Tier 1 international tournaments and not playing below the championship division in any event they play.
o Anyone listed in the top 75 of the BMAB rankings.
o Anyone that has cashed in the championship division of three Tier 2 international/national tournaments and has not played below the championship division in any event they played. If necessary, ties between players will be broken by consideration of size of tournaments and positions won.
GIANTS VOTERS
Allow every championship level player voter possible, each satisfying one of the following criteria:
• A player must have played in the Championship Division of a Tier 1 tournament.
• A player must have played in the Championship Division of a minimum of three Tier 2 tournaments.
• A player must be ranked in the top 125 of the BMAB statistics.
• A player must have a Gamesgrid rating >1800 at the time of qualification.
GIANTS VOTING
• Each voter selects up to twenty Giants from the ballot of two hundred approved candidates.
• Each voter ranks their top five Giant candidates. Ranking is only used to break ties.
• Each of the up to twenty votes counts one point in the accounting of votes.
• If ties exist they are broken by consideration of total rankings. Rankings count five points for first, four for second, three for third, two for second, and one for fifth.
• Approved voters are assigned a unique password to be used for voting. Each password can only be used one time in the voting process on the Giants website.
• Audits will be conducted to ensure legitimate correlation between ballots and IP addresses and to scan for any collusion.
• Anyone found guilty of a voting irregularity can be banned from voting or from being a Giant candidate for up to three voting cycles.
TOURNAMENTS
Tournaments are defined in two major categories (Tier 1 and Tier2) to qualify Giants candidates and voters as defined above. All tournaments must use modern international rules, including the doubling cube, to be sanctioned as qualifying events.
Tier 1 Tournaments (as examples, actual to be decided by Committee)
• Monte Carlo World Championship
• Nordic Open
• Gibraltar Championship
• Cyprus Merit
• Japan Open
• London Open
• UK Open
• Istavder Istanbul
• New York Metro
• Las Vegas Open
• Michigan Summer Championships
• Texas Backgammon Championships
Tier 2 Tournaments
• Multi-Division Tournaments with > 75 Total Players including >35 in Championship Division
• Single Division Tournaments with >75 Total Players
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