Proposed speed matchplay tournament on ISC
Inspired by James Curley's new NYC matchplay tournament (which was in turn inspired by the Boston Beanpot) I've decided to hold and play in a speed matchplay tournament conducted over ISC. The proposed details are as follows:
Update: 18 players of the original 20 confirmed, and I'm going to go ahead and hold the tournament with them, because I have a bracket for that number. Waiting list players will be kept around in case I have a dropout during the tournament or mistakenly confirmed someone. Pairings will be sent today, September 9. You'll have four days to complete your rounds.
- All games will be played 3/0 (3 minute) double challenge, using the patriotic American dictionary, TWL2 (known incorrectly as TWL98 on ISC).
- In this tournament you will play a best-of-9 series against your assigned opponents in any given round. There will be a tiebreaker played if the series finishes 4.5-4.5. This is so that all the games fit in ISC's history, facilitating recordkeeping. Most series should finish in around 50 minutes, and none ought to take over 80.
- The tournament will be matchplay double elimination (i.e. at minimum each player will get to play in two best-of-9 series.) It will be bracketed according to this website's brackets (thanks Ryan Fischer).
- The person who loses the series should report scores of all series games to me as promptly as possible after the series is over. I prefer that you do this via ISC message so I know who you are, but you can do it some other way as long as I get it. Uploading games to cross-tables (facilitated by Marc Broering's converter) is suggested but not required.
- This tournament is only open to people who have received NASPA, WGPO or WESPA ratings, or the equivalent by another nation's sanctioning body in English-language Scrabble, and are willing to divulge their names. I do not want to deal with some anonymous Frenchman with an anagrammer and no accountability. There are no additional restrictions. The tournament will be seeded according to NASPA rating as of whenever the last change to the tournament roster occurs (currently 9/4/10 at 2pm.) I will flip a coin from random.org to determine seeding in the event of a rating tie.
- Now that the tournament is full, if someone drops out I will go to a waiting list should one form. In the absence of a waiting list there will most likely be byes.
- If some complicated tournament directing thing comes up that I don't understand I'll ask Ryan Fischer to help me.
Feel free to post in this thread or contact me (I'm "volucris" and "huntedly") on ISC if you're interested in participating. If you don't think I know it, please provide your name, the ISC username you'll be using to play your games in the tournament, and the organization with whom you have a rating (if it isn't NASPA.)
The field (ratings as of 9/9/10):
Waiting list:
Carl Johnson (chaithedog) - or so I hear, he still hasn't contacted me
Brian Leavitt (matrioska)
Update: 18 players of the original 20 confirmed, and I'm going to go ahead and hold the tournament with them, because I have a bracket for that number. Waiting list players will be kept around in case I have a dropout during the tournament or mistakenly confirmed someone. Pairings will be sent today, September 9. You'll have four days to complete your rounds.
- All games will be played 3/0 (3 minute) double challenge, using the patriotic American dictionary, TWL2 (known incorrectly as TWL98 on ISC).
- In this tournament you will play a best-of-9 series against your assigned opponents in any given round. There will be a tiebreaker played if the series finishes 4.5-4.5. This is so that all the games fit in ISC's history, facilitating recordkeeping. Most series should finish in around 50 minutes, and none ought to take over 80.
- The tournament will be matchplay double elimination (i.e. at minimum each player will get to play in two best-of-9 series.) It will be bracketed according to this website's brackets (thanks Ryan Fischer).
- The person who loses the series should report scores of all series games to me as promptly as possible after the series is over. I prefer that you do this via ISC message so I know who you are, but you can do it some other way as long as I get it. Uploading games to cross-tables (facilitated by Marc Broering's converter) is suggested but not required.
- This tournament is only open to people who have received NASPA, WGPO or WESPA ratings, or the equivalent by another nation's sanctioning body in English-language Scrabble, and are willing to divulge their names. I do not want to deal with some anonymous Frenchman with an anagrammer and no accountability. There are no additional restrictions. The tournament will be seeded according to NASPA rating as of whenever the last change to the tournament roster occurs (currently 9/4/10 at 2pm.) I will flip a coin from random.org to determine seeding in the event of a rating tie.
- Now that the tournament is full, if someone drops out I will go to a waiting list should one form. In the absence of a waiting list there will most likely be byes.
- If some complicated tournament directing thing comes up that I don't understand I'll ask Ryan Fischer to help me.
Feel free to post in this thread or contact me (I'm "volucris" and "huntedly") on ISC if you're interested in participating. If you don't think I know it, please provide your name, the ISC username you'll be using to play your games in the tournament, and the organization with whom you have a rating (if it isn't NASPA.)
The field (ratings as of 9/9/10):
- Ian Weinstein (jqxzdoc), NASPA 1963
- Conrad Bassett-Bouchard (dacron), NASPA 1937
- Sam Rosin (dugy1001), NASPA 1924
- Peter Armstrong (axolotl), NASPA 1914
- Jeff Widergren (rewerding), NASPA 1911
- Noah Walton (whatnoloan), NASPA 1895
- Nigel Peltier (ELBINGO), NASPA 1879
- Bradley Whitmarsh (GoldfishBW), NASPA 1835
- Brian Bowman (stmonday), NASPA 1835
- Matthew Tunnicliffe (TheLamb), NASPA 1811
- César Del Solar (ozmarules), NASPA 1794
- Ben Schoenbrun (bnjy99), NASPA 1791
- Jesse Day (Magrathean), NASPA 1785
- Ryan Fischer (Wonderfish), NASPA 1751
- Jesse Matthews (soccerguy), NASPA 1738
- Nathan James (volucris), NASPA 1655
- Lisa Abraham (blitzqueen), NASPA 1630
- Geoffrey Newman (Zooglea), NASPA 1629
Waiting list:
Carl Johnson (chaithedog) - or so I hear, he still hasn't contacted me
Brian Leavitt (matrioska)