Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To je ju wrote on Sat, Mar 22, 2008 05:49 AM UTC:Absolutely correct, no need to make it the GC tourney 4. I suggest/propose... 8 players, 8 games. Each player designates a game they want to have in the tournament. Once the 8 players and games are known, there will be a one week period in which any participant may veto a suggested game. That game will be replaced by any other game chosen by the person who orignally chose the game that got vetoed. The replacement may not be vetoed by anyone. Once the games and players are known, the players will be put into two groups of 4. The groups will be determined by current rankings. Among the 8 participants, pool A will include the players with the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th rankings. Pool B will have 2,4,6,8. Player 1 will play Player 3, Player 5 and Player 7 in the game Player 1 brought to the tourney, as well as the game their opponent brought to the tourney. Same format for Pool B. Each player will be involved in 6 tournament games simultaneously. Time setting will be a pace of 4 moves per week, same as the GC Tournament 3. 1 point for a win, 0 for a loss, .5 for a draw. At the conclusion of the round robin, top 2 from each pool will create a winners pool, and the bottom 2 from each pool will form a losers pool. The same format for round 2. After that, the top two in the winners pool will each nominate 2 of the games that were brought to the tournament and play each other in those four games to determine the champion. This could also be done between the bottom 2 of the winners pool, the top two of the losers pool and the bottom two of the losers pool. The total number of entrants need not be restricted to 8, and any multiple of 4 would be fine with this format. If the number were 10, pools of 5 possible but that has each player playing 8 games at the same time and that could be a bit much. If there is any interest in this sort of tournament I'd be happy to organize it, but would need someone to do the tech bits (assigning games, putting up charts and stats and that sort of thing. ex: Player Game Elvis Alice Chess Aretha Time Travel Chess Ray Omega Chess Janis Janus Chess Karen Korean Chess Snowman Falcon Chess Horse Crazyhouse Joe Joyce Anti-King Chess Aretha uses veto to eliminate Janus Chess. Janus replaces it with Cannons of Chesstonia. Player Game Elvis Alice Chess Aretha Time Travel Chess Ray Omega Chess Janis Cannons of Chesstonia (replacing Janus) Karen Korean Chess Snowman Falcon Chess Horse Crazyhouse Joe Joyce Anti-King Chess With the help of David Paulowich, it is determined that over the past 365 days, the players rankings fall in this order: 1 Joe Joyce, 2 Elvis, 3 Ray, 4 Horse, 5 Karen, 6 Snowman, 7 Aretha and 8 Janus Pool A is Joe Ray Karen Aretha Pool B is Elvis Horse Snowman Janus Joe vs Ray Anti-King Joe vs Ray Omega Chess Joe vs Karen Anti-King Joe vs Karen Korean Joe vs Aretha Anti-King Joe vs Aretha Time Travel Similarly designed schedule for each player. End of round one: Name wins losses draws points Joe 5 0 1 5.5 Karen 4 2 0 4 Aretha 2 4 0 2 Ray 0 5 1 .5 Joe and Karen go onto winner's pool, Aretha and Ray onto the loser's pool. End of winner's pool: Name wins losses draws points Joe 5 0 1 5.5 Janus 4 2 0 4 Elvis 2 4 0 2 Karen 0 5 1 .5 Joe will choose two of the games, Janus will choose two of the games, and they will play each other once in each game. Overall winner is champion. In the event that they split the four games, they each then choose one more game and play those two...and continue as necessary until there is a winner. Any thoughts? Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID GC Tourney does not match any item.
