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Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Sunday, 24 April 2011, at 2:28 p.m.

In Response To: Tournament formats (Timothy Chow)

Your ideas are good for major events with lots of time, and for which the goal is to find the best player. I'm not sure we have one of those anywhere in the world right now. The World Cup was the closest to that in recent(?) memory for an event with world attendance -- best 3 of 5 matches to 9-points each -- but that event was discontinued after 1998.

There are a couple reasons not to have long matches:

1) Most weekend events (US for sure, and I'm guessing Europe as well) have a limited amount of time for competition with a decent sized field (~30 up to over 100 players in a field).

2) There is some incentive to also attract players who are less than the top rank in skill level.

Even the MCWC (as it has historically been conducted) has kept at least #2 in mind.

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.