Saturday, 8 September 2012

So.......

I'm gonna try to be nice here.

People are unhappy that you allowed two rounds to go past time and 4 turns, causing the whole fiasco to end past 7.

People are unhappy that as a judge you left before the tourney ended. I'm glad you realised you have plans well guess what so do we.

I understand you were envisioning a "Double Elimination cut to Top 4 playoff" but what was announced was "Double Elimination" so follow that.

An example of an 11 man Double Elimination bracket can be found here.
http://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdfbrackets/11teamdouble.pdf

It really is alot easier to understand that it looks. The mistake was evident since the first round, as the bracket shows only 4 active tables.

Finally, I am currently using a website that allows for simple Single Eli, Double Eli and Swiss Pairings. You have your iPad, I have made a reusable bracket for all three formats strictly for Econ tourneys. If you want, I can provide the URLs for them in person.

I'm just trying to make sure that if you carry on as the judge, you do your job right. I don't claim to be a bracket genius, if I were I would hav spotted the mistake in Round 1. All I do is bother to give everyone the fairest tourneys possible.

6 comments:

  1. You lose, complain. You win, complain. Your team mate do the judging, you complain. Someone else do judging, you complain. You judge, also complain. Perma complain!

    I think the other players are happier than yourself because they just want a nice clean duel with a nice prize in site.

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    1. Perhaps they do, I suppose that's why I'm on a different level than them. And you for that matter.
      There were many people unhappy with how long the whole thing went, especially due to the judge not even setting a time limit. I have no qualms with people playing Empty Jar in tourneys, just remember than other people are also waiting for their pairings.

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  2. Why there an extra 4 turns? Which duel was it?
    Which 2 rounds go pass time
    I do not want to misunderstand anyone. Please be specific

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    1. Time was never called in round 2 and 3, allowing the Empty Jar to play out the entire match. Basically, the judge never even bothered to time, after round 1 which was 35 mins. The players at the other table at the opposite block were also uninformed that time was called at round 1. They were only told there was 1 minute remaining, and after that minute no action was taken from the judge or any of his dogs.... Ahem I mean assistants.

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  3. Some players were thrown to the opposite block on the first round pair up
    Is it true?

    Who is the judge?

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    1. I won't really blame anyone for that, there was a Vanguar tourney goin on and not enough tables.

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