Nominated Players Tourney - To Date

cavebear · June 7, 2000, 18:43

Interested observors have requested a summary of Tourney results and the basis for the pairs/MP groupings. I am delighted by the interest and the opportunity to provide some information:

1. TOURNEY SUMMARY

(WINNER LISTED FIRST)

Round 1 (Duels - 4 pts)
ARITEA 4 CAPTVK
CARNIDE 4 CRUSTACIAN
CURUMBOR 4 DEITY
JEDI 4 KENTHUR
MARK E 4 FINBAR
MARKUS 4 EMPRESS
NAPPY 4 SMARTFART
WAR4EVER 4 ALEX'S HORSE

Round 2 (Duels - 4 pts)
ALEX'S HORSE 4 FINBAR
ARITEA 4 MARK E
CRUSTACIAN 4 KENTHUR
DEITY 4 CAPTVK
JEDI 4 WAR4EVER
MARKUS 4 CARNIDE
NAPPY 4 CURUMBOR
SMARTFART 4 EMPRESS

Round 3 (MP - 4/3/2/1 pts)
Current Total Pts (Rds 1 & 2)
GAME A
MARKUS 8
CRUSTACIAN 4
ARITEA 8
NAPPY 8

GAME B
MARK E 4
CURUMBOR 4
DEITY 4
FINBAR 0

GAME C
CARNIDE 4
SMARTFART 4
CAPTVK 0
EMPRESS 0

2. This has been set up as a Swiss System tourney. The key aspect of it is that those with the same or closest points play each other the following round. The Swiss System, used in most chess tourneys, keeps the most successful players competing against each other (the exception being that players should not play the same people more than once. This tends to arrive at a clear winner in the shortest number of rounds.

Rounds 1 & 2 were duels, 4 points to the winner and zero to the loser. Rounds 3 & 4 are MP games, with points of 4/3/2/1 for 1st/2nd/3rd/4th place, respectively.

Round 1 was set up alphabetically (with some late additions though), there being no scores to base pairings on. The possible scores after Round 1 were 4 or 0.

In Round 2, the winners in Round 1 all played other Round 1 winners (pairings made randomly). The possible scores after Round 2 were 8, 4, and 0.

In Round 3, I attempted to keep to the "same score" idea, but some scheduling problems and 2 withdrawals forced some changes. The 4 MP games were thus reduced to 3, and some adjustments were made to accomodate time zone difficulties.

For the Round 3 MP games (4 players each), I placed a "4" player in the "8" group, and mixed the "4" and "0" players into 2 games. The score groups are therefore as closely matched as possible, and the are no "8" and "0" players in the same game.

When Round 3 is completed, there will be a much greater range of possible scores (all scores from 0-12 are possible).

Round 4 will group players by score (to the extent possible by time zone difficulties). Since it is *very* important that the top-scoring players compete, time zome difficulties must be less of a concern.
Round 4 will determine the Tourney winner (unless there is a tie score).

In the case of a tie (for 1st place only), there will either be a duel or MP game (as appropriate).

Smash · June 7, 2000, 20:59

I applaud your and the players efforts here.I think all are starting to realize how difficult this is/will be to complete.Logistically speaking, its' a bit of nightmare.

Good Luck

June 7, 2000, 22:11

Cavebear, can you run everything past me again after "Interested....".

cavebear · June 8, 2000, 17:59

AlexHorse - I can send it to you by email if it would help. One word at a time... :>

finbar · June 8, 2000, 18:07

Words of one syllable would be best.

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June 8, 2000, 19:25

Cavebear, you misspelt "observers"

cavebear · June 8, 2000, 20:35

AlexHorse - You can blame that sort of thing on my Latin teacher (the language, not the dance). I learned a great deal about my native English language there. There are some word structures in which "or" is used rather than "er" to demonstrate human action, and I have a tendency to fall back on Latin in that regard.

Morare Disce Est! ("All horses fall from high tree branches") LOL

June 8, 2000, 21:03

Um Cavebear, if you are American, english is not your native language.

We forgive you though - everyone knows Americans can't spell

Sparrowhawk · June 18, 2000, 17:42

I'm still having trouble keeping up with this tournament, I don't envy you your job Cavebear, must be difficult.

Hoping that someone within each MP game can post to this thread when the MP game is complete to fill us in. I have been trying to follow the individual threads but can't keep track of the different games. Great Idea Cavebear btw, to have this tournament. Looking forward to the final round.

SmartFart · June 19, 2000, 19:25

This tourney rocks!!!

It's kinda hard to continue multiplayer games,but on tournament players have much stronger intentions to continue started games.

I strongly suggest Nominated Players Tourney 2 as soon as this one is finished.

Tournaments on Gameleague aren't my types of games because of settings.

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June 19, 2000, 19:30

Yeah, gotta agree with you there SmartFart!

I nominate makeo to be in the next one.
And everyone who stayed with this round.
There are prob a few others who are both good and reliable but can't think of them at the moment....

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