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Why do like records play like records?

Posted By: mfic
Date: Monday, 9 March 2009, at 8:25 p.m.

In Response To: Why do like records play like records? (Rich Munitz)

Indy-Swiss is a great format and with 3-full-days available, it works really well with each round Scheduled to start at a particular time. It gives players more control of their down time (eat, take a walk, nap, run an errand, or play a side event).

But it does take 3 days of play to make it work that way and most of us Tournament Directors do not have a holiday weekend available to run it, nor are willing to require a Thur-Fri-Sat-Sun from our players (and their necessary travel time)in order to still hold the side-events (Masters, Doubles, Blitz, Jackpots, MiniMatches) that are required for the tournament to not lose money

I considered changing one of our two ABT events to Indy-Swiss, but with an OPEN field of 55-64 players, there is just not enough time for the 8 Swiss rounds and then the 3-4 rounds of playoffs (and a Consolation bracket).

I do use it for our VIETOR CUP each September in La Jolla, where we have a max of 32 players (typically 26-30). Two really busy days, with pre-schedule match start times and a Consolation for those with 3 losses.

Double_elimintion with Progressive Consolation is popular with the players as long as there is not too much WAIT time between matches (clocks should fix this) and lessening the huge equity of the Undefeated's 75% winning chance by making the finals a ONE MATCH ONLY.

____________patrick (the MFIC)

Messages In This Thread

• Modified swiss
  rew -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 2:30 p.m.
  • Modified swiss
    Jason Lee -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 2:57 p.m.
  • Modified swiss
    Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 4:07 p.m.
    • Why do like records play like records?
      Tom Keith -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 4:39 p.m.
      • Why do like records play like records?
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 4:58 p.m.
      • Why do like records play like records?
        Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 5:00 p.m.
        • Why do like records play like records?
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 5:51 p.m.
          • Why do like records play like records?
            Chuck Bower -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 5:06 p.m.
            • Why do like records play like records?
              Matt Cohn-Geier -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 9:10 p.m.
              • Why do like records play like records?
                Sam Pottle -- Saturday, 7 March 2009, at 9:02 a.m.
                • Why do like records play like records?
                  Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 7 March 2009, at 9:51 a.m.
              • Disagree, as stated
                Chuck Bower -- Saturday, 7 March 2009, at 3:40 p.m.
                • Disagree, as stated
                  Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 7 March 2009, at 10:39 p.m.
                  • Rather
                    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Saturday, 7 March 2009, at 10:48 p.m.
      • Why do like records play like records?
        Rich Munitz -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 6:41 p.m.
      • Why do like records play like records?
        Sam Pottle -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 9:06 p.m.
      • Why do like records play like records?
        Rich Munitz -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 6:03 p.m.
        • Why do like records play like records?
          Bob Koca -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 8:54 p.m.
          • Why do like records play like records?
            Rich Munitz -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 10:57 p.m.
            • Why do like records play like records?
              Bob Koca -- Saturday, 7 March 2009, at 6:36 p.m.
            • Why do like records play like records?
              mfic -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 8:25 p.m.
              • Why do like records play like records?
                Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 9:09 p.m.
        • Why do like records play like records?
          Sam Pottle -- Saturday, 7 March 2009, at 9:33 a.m.
  • Modified swiss
    Bob Koca -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 8:05 p.m.
  • Modified swiss
    Sam Pottle -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 9:09 p.m.
    • Modified swiss
      Jason Lee -- Thursday, 5 March 2009, at 10:49 p.m.
      • Modified swiss
        Sam Pottle -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 12:31 a.m.
      • Modified swiss
        Gregg Cattanach -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 2:52 p.m.
        • Modified swiss
          Bob Koca -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 3:45 p.m.
          • Modified swiss
            Gregg Cattanach -- Friday, 6 March 2009, at 4:37 p.m.
        • DE
          garyo -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 2:46 a.m.
          • DE
            Tom Keith -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 9:31 p.m.
            • DE
              garyo -- Tuesday, 10 March 2009, at 10:30 p.m.
              • DE
                Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 11 March 2009, at 12:42 a.m.
                • you can do the math
                  Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 11 March 2009, at 2:38 p.m.
                  • you can do the math
                    Tom Keith -- Wednesday, 11 March 2009, at 3:38 p.m.
                    • you can do the math
                      Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 11 March 2009, at 3:53 p.m.
        • Modified swiss
          mfic -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 7:35 p.m.
  • what is monrad? *NM*
    garyo -- Sunday, 8 March 2009, at 5:48 a.m.
  • Modified swiss
    mfic -- Monday, 9 March 2009, at 8:00 p.m.