Suggestion for Small Swiss Tournaments
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Jun 7, 2019
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How do you handle withdraws? With that, there is a very good chance players will have to sit out rounds, or play someone they have played before.
Jun 7, 2019
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#4
Rounds Robins are on the way...
@martin_stahl Withdraws are a big concern of mine as well.
Jun 7, 2019
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#5
There could be a couple of reserves who would play in the next tourney if they weren't used.
Jun 8, 2019
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@jaredjm This is a good suggestion. I completely agree. I sometimes play 1-0 Bullet Swiss and instead of 9 rounds, it ends up being less because a low participant turnout.
Jun 8, 2019
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#7
jdcannon wrote:
Rounds Robins are on the way...
@martin_stahl Withdraws are a big concern of mine as well.
@jdcannon I'm glad to hear Round Robbin tournaments are coming.
withdrawals would I guess be an automatic win. This would be an issue I suppose.
Jun 8, 2019
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#9
jaredjm wrote:
withdrawals would I guess be an automatic win. This would be an issue I suppose.
Automatic win, would work, though you would still have people sitting out some rounds, potentially multiple rounds.
My main concern is that some people sign up for swiss tournaments for a reason. If I entered a swiss tournament expecting to be playing someone around my strength, I can get that experience. Round robin would cater to that, but it also forces you to play extremeties (someone who is much better, and someone much worse). I understand that having a small swiss is essentially going to turn out the same as a RR, but RR also makes it a pain if someone accidentally disconnects or purposefully leaves because the question is: is it fair for someone else to get an auto-win when others have lost to the same player?
Jun 9, 2019
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#11
Round Robins are good with small numbers though Swiss are ok when there are lots of players.
In a Live Chess swiss-style tournament, if the number of rounds is greater than the number of players entered in the tournament at start time, then I think it would be good (or there should be an option) to have the tournament automatically turn into a Round Robin-style tournament. The reason for this is that sometimes in club tournaments there aren't a lot of people in the tournament, so the swiss gets automatically shortened to 4 rounds or something like that, when 8 people could have a normal length rr tournament. What do you think?