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Proposal for new tournament format, partly "stolen" from Bridge team tournaments.(Warning: Long)

Posted By: Ivar Røynstrand
Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2008, at 7:35 p.m.

In Response To: Proposal for new tournament format, partly "stolen" from Bridge team tournaments.(Warning: Long) (Keene)

"Player A scores a G on a 64cube in game 1 of series. Player B now has to play aggressively with the cube to win. Player A just passes all of B's cubes. Loses series 6-1, but wins 30 VP's by virtue of the net 122 money game points he accumulated."

Well, it would not work like this. If Player A wins a gammon on a 64 cube in game one, player B would probably be cubing at his first opportunity, so if A drops every cube his lead might not be that big..(remember you are not playing a fixed amount of games, but a fixed time). So those 1 point losses will add up. But true enough a big swing are damaging to this system. But how common do you think these huge swing would be?

True, loosing a gammon on a 64 cube would be bad for player B , but loosing 128 points in the first game is also pretty bad in most normal matches too.

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"In Bridge, this cant happen, as there are actual limits to the scoring, and you dont know what your running total is at the time. You are unable to manipulate."

Yes, I have also thought that this might be a problem. I am not sure if it this problem can be solved or not. Maybee a different scale(less linear) for scoring could help?

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