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Progressive vs Traditional Last Chance for ABT events

Posted By: Sam Pottle
Date: Saturday, 17 January 2009, at 8:40 a.m.

In Response To: Progressive vs Traditional Last Chance for ABT events (neilkaz)

With the traditional LC, it isn't til players lose in the first rd of LC (ie no earlier than 11:30 AM Sunday, that ANYONE is out of the event and free to deal with side events.

On the other hand, those who have lost in the Consolation are free to play in side events during Saturday evening. More progress is made in the side events on Saturday because those players are not busy playing LC matches. The ME has to play 63 main flight matches, 59 consolation matches, and 57 LC matches regardless of whether the LC is progressive. Rearranging the schedule doesn't reduce the amount of play needed.

Often, the problem is that ten pounds of matches are being stuffed into a five pound bag. Allowing players to enter many events at once is often workable in a four day tournament, is tricky in a three day tournament, and is usually catastrophic in a two day tournament. (The most important tool the director of a two day tournament has for preventing schedule congestion is to disallow anybody from being alive in the doubles and the masters simultaneously.)

I can see where shortening the Sunday LC schedule by a round could be helpful, though.

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