Comments | samhampton: sucking in north salem

samhampton

sucking in north salem

Dec 10, 2006 12:53

i went 1-6 minus a gazillion in north salem yesterday. being that this was my first really shitty tournament, i'm not that upset about it. being that i ended up as the bottom seed in d2, i had an easy shot at hitting 1200 for albany, but it didn't happen. not even close ( Read more... )

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ericaareicceria December 11 2006, 06:00:20 UTC

good to see you saturday...i got my losing out of the way on sunday in philly...aargh!
hopefully that's all the losing that's planned for me. time for me to hit the books and i'll see you in albany.

samhampton December 11 2006, 15:02:04 UTC

looking forward to it!

bad splits in North Salem david_b_lewis December 12 2006, 00:36:18 UTC

Sorry you had the bad luck in the B group. The splits were different in last month's tournament there.

Your post raises two of my pet peeves:

- where are all the 1200-1300 players? There seems to be a big gap there.

- tournaments should have inter-division games so that you wind up playing the N people closest in rating to you, or at least play a few games out of division.

-David

Inter-divisional games ataraxy22 December 12 2006, 07:09:12 UTC

That's an idea I've been thinking about lately. Haven't thought up of a way to do it yet, but I think it would make everyone happy.

Re: Inter-divisional games david_b_lewis December 12 2006, 18:00:27 UTC

Well, if e.g. Division 1 and 2 had odd numbers of players, then in every round the extra players would match off together. More complicated: middle divisions also play a match against the next one down.

The scheme fits into current bracketing arrangements; e.g. "player 8" in a section is really the player from the other section whose turn it is to play out of division.

I had earlier raised the idea on CGP, mentioning that the baseball season seems to use a similar idea.

Re: bad splits in North Salem samhampton December 12 2006, 16:38:37 UTC

i didn't have any problem with the splits in North Salem...in fact, it was preferable for me...just would have been nice to have been able to have won a couple more games. i honestly don't think all of my losses were a result of being outrated by opponents. yes, there was a big gap, but not too unusual for such a small field of players, particularly one that had several unrated players and several fairly new to the game.

as far as tournaments with inter-division games...and i'm not going to get into any fancy formula stuff here, but i could see this working out if one did an "open"-style tournament in a simple bracket pattern based on rating, where winner of this plays loser of that, etc., and use final standing groups rather than initial ones to award class prizes, etc. i don't see any reason why new formats shouldn't be at least experimented with, although i am more than happy with all of the existing ones.