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A remark on Monte Carlo 2022 – Match lengths in double elimination tournaments.

Posted By: Roland Scheicher
Date: Thursday, 11 August 2022, at 2:24 p.m.

Of course, the result of a backgammon match does not only depend on skill, but on luck, too. If two players, let’s call them A and B, have played two matches against each other. If A having won a 17-point match, and B having won an 11-pointer, we should be more inclined to believe A to be the better player than B, since matches to a higher number of points are regarded as more convincing than shorter ones.

However, the tournament format of Monte Carlo 2022 does not comply with this. Wilcox Snellings defeated Zdenek Zizka in the main bracket winning a 17-point match. Later Snellings was defeated and met Zizka again in the second chance bracket: this time Zizka won, and this latter victory in an 11 point match was more important than Snelling’s victory in the 17 pointer. I could feel comfortable with the fact that a latter match is more important than an erarlier one, bur it should be at least of the same length.

Thus – despite of all difficulties of organizing a tournament – the matches in the second chance must not be shorter than those in the main bracket. (PS: I do not want to judge the strength of Snellings or Zizka.)

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