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Tournament formats

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 9:21 p.m.

In Response To: Tournament formats (Timothy Chow)

There have been many Swiss events online over the years going back a decade. Shelby use to run a Swiss pairs event for gammon4fun on the old zone for many sessions. Swiss events were also heavily touted by Hank Youngerman for many years (Makes sense given his Bridge background). Leo's international event was Swiss.

As for long format tournaments (online), I have to admit there are many best of series events run by web based hosts and have been done for a lot of years. There are 21pt match events on SHG, Best of 3 or 5 events of 11-15pt matches etc.

As for team events where you play every other team member - again online that has been done for ages as well. Some of the WC players here have played in such events online in the past (ie, Qseries Tandem Team comes to mind).

For *online* events one could look at www.progressivebg.net, www.qseriess.com, www.zcs-zcsq.com, www.warpgammon.com, www.gammonzone.com, www.gammon4fun.com (now defunct). All have/had long format (sometimes 3 month events) of varying formats over the past decade. Some have been quite successful in the past.

I am of course speaking about online. Your post started out as a general question but then migrated to OTB play. Just wanted to make the observation that long format, Swiss, team (and combos) are not new to the online arena.

OTB/IRL is of course trickier since you need to find a balance that makes it fit in the generally shorter time constraints but also is long enough to allow the more skilled players to prevail without making people play 24/7 .

Messages In This Thread

• Tournament formats
  Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 8:29 p.m.
  • Tournament formats
    Bill Riles -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 9:00 p.m.
    • Tournament formats
      Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 9:17 p.m.
      • Tournament formats
        Bill Riles -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 9:26 p.m.
        • Tournament formats
          Jason Lee -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 10:13 p.m.
      • Tournament formats
        Michael Crane -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 1:17 p.m.
  • Tournament formats
    Michael Petch -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 9:21 p.m.
  • Tournament formats
    Brus -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 10:16 p.m.
    • Tournament formats
      Leonardo Jerkovic -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 11:03 p.m.
      • Tournament formats
        Timothy Chow -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 11:38 p.m.
        • Tournament formats
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 1:15 p.m.
          • Tournament formats
            Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 4:04 p.m.
            • Tournament formats
              Leonardo Jerkovic -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 4:36 p.m.
              • Tournament formats
                Mislav Radica -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 1:00 a.m.
                • Tournament formats
                  Michael Crane -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 7:39 a.m.
                  • Tournament formats
                    Mislav Radica -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 1:00 p.m.
    • Tournament formats
      Jason Lee -- Saturday, 23 April 2011, at 11:59 p.m.
  • The Chicago Open will be a "More Swiss" format (Long but informative)
    rory -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 3:02 a.m.
    • The Chicago Open will be a "More Swiss" format (Long but informative)
      Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 2:20 p.m.
      • The Chicago Open will be a "More Swiss" format (Long but informative)
        Sam Pottle -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 1:42 a.m.
        • Stay vigilant, Sam
          Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 1 May 2011, at 4:00 p.m.
          • Stay vigilant, Sam
            Sam Pottle -- Sunday, 1 May 2011, at 5:12 p.m.
            • LOL! *NM*
              rory -- Sunday, 1 May 2011, at 11:13 p.m.
    • OK, serious question this time
      Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 2:38 p.m.
      • OK, serious question this time
        rory -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 2:36 a.m.
        • OK, serious question this time
          Bob Koca -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 3:29 a.m.
          • OK, serious question this time
            rory -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 3:33 a.m.
            • OK, serious question this time
              Bob Koca -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 5:32 a.m.
              • OK, serious question this time
                rory -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 2:22 p.m.
                • OK, serious question this time
                  Rich Munitz -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 7:20 p.m.
                • OK, serious question this time
                  Sam Pottle -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 1:50 a.m.
  • Tournament formats
    Michael Crane -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 1:13 p.m.
  • Other considerations
    Chuck Bower -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 2:28 p.m.
    • Other considerations
      Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 4:03 p.m.
    • Other considerations
      Sam Pottle -- Thursday, 28 April 2011, at 1:52 a.m.
  • Tournament formats
    Bob Koca -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 3:48 p.m.
    • Tournament formats
      Tom Keith -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 7:00 p.m.
      • Tournament formats
        Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 7:30 p.m.
        • Tournament formats
          Bob Koca -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 9:40 p.m.
    • Tournament formats
      Phil Simborg -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 5:51 p.m.
      • Tournament formats
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 6:01 p.m.
        • Tournament formats
          Leonardo Jerkovic -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 6:27 p.m.
      • Measure of (much more) skill?
        mtuhtan -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 6:13 p.m.
        • Measure of (much more) skill?
          eXtreme Gammon -- Tuesday, 26 April 2011, at 7:54 p.m.
  • Tournament formats
    Alex Davies -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 4:21 p.m.
    • Tournament formats
      Leonardo Jerkovic -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 4:39 p.m.
    • Tournament formats
      Brus -- Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 10:55 p.m.
      • Tournament formats
        Timothy Chow -- Monday, 25 April 2011, at 2:19 a.m.