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Re: Proposal: 2012-2013 Knockout Match Tournament
« Reply #15 on: Feb 16th, 2012, 1:27pm » |
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on Feb 15th, 2012, 1:54pm, MerlokDD wrote:How about a swiss system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament
The same number of games for everyone,
from round to round more and more games
of players with almost equal strength.
I'd love to have a few games with overwhelming
oponents and later some more with my strength. |
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From 2008-2011 the World Championship was split into two parts:
1. An Open Classic with a Swiss System to determine the top 8 qualifiers & seeds.
2. An 8-player double-elimination World Championship Finals.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/mwiki/index.php/2011_World_Championship
There will be a big debate sometime this year about which format to use during the 2013 World Championship. I liked the previous system because it gave everyone a chance to compete for the top seed in the World Championship Finals. I have no idea how the debate will unfold but I’m pretty sure there’s more support for a triple- or quadruple-elimination than a Swiss System. But, I might end up on the Swiss System side of the debate anyway. Something like a 10-round Swiss followed by a Semi-Final & Final amongst the top 4 finishers would allow the tournament to wrap up by the end of March. But there will be passionate arguments for the quadruple-elimination which leaves everyone in control of their own destiny (versus a situation where somebody finishes 8-2 in a Swiss and ends up 5th by a tie-breaker). The quadruple-elimination would have the drawback of potentially running into May (I suppose that’s an advantage if you want the tournament to continue into May but I think it would scare quite a few people away). Who knows, maybe some other hybrid system will win the debate (the only thing I'm sure of is that it won't be a round-robin format  ). Anyway, that’s something to worry about later. I’m not trying to trigger a 2013 WC debate right now 
Another idea we could resurrect is a 30-second/move weekend tournament. There were one-day Swiss fast tournaments in 2009 that had only 4 and 6 players, respectively, for the two events. However, the Arimaa community has grown quite a bit in 3 years and I believe we could get at least 8+ participants for a similar tournament later in 2012. Maybe a two-day or two-weekend event would be better so that the games don’t have to be squeezed into a 6 or 8 hour period? One problem was that we catered to the Americas & Europe with the timing of the games in 2009. To include East Asia & Aus/NZ would mean having games start only in a narrow window from perhaps 19:00 GMT to 22:00 GMT. But it could be done in a multi-day tournament or just make different tournaments for different geographical regions.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/mwiki/index.php/2009_Saturday_Swiss_Tournaments
For this event that I’m proposing, I prefer the folding-bracket rather than a Swiss system. It’ll be 8 players maximum so the first round would be 1 vs. 8 to 4 vs. 5. I think it’s more fair to give the 4th & 5th ranked players a chance to face one another rather than to put one up against the top seed and the other against the bottom seed.
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