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(Message started by: Adanac on Oct 8^th, 2012, 7:57pm)

Title: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by Adanac on Oct 8^th, 2012, 7:57pm

Here are the pairings for the final round of the tournament. The event runs until December 31st. As always, the player on the left has gold in games 1, 3, 5, 7.

Adanac – chessandgo
Nombril - browni3141
woh – Mistre

Thiagor – Harren
Dolus – ginrunner
ocmiente – Tellmarch
Braveheart – Jacka

Note: There were a couple of requests to modify the pairings of the consolation rounds. The Open Division players agreed but, unfortunately, (due to my mistake) we won't be able to do so in the Under-2200 division. I'll update the website with the new pairings in the next few days.

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by Adanac on Dec 28^th, 2012, 1:40pm

The final round has been extended to January 14th to give players a chance to finish their matches. However, you may not overlap a World Championship game: Don't begin a game if there is any WC game in progress or within 1 hour of the starting time of any WC game.

If your opponent has disappeared from the Arimaa community and is not responding to your messages, please let me know as soon as possible. Players that fail to complete their games will lose by forfeit and lose part of their deposit, as per the tournament rules.

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by mistre on Jan 11^th, 2013, 9:42am

Adanac,

Thanks for extending the final round of the tournament. Woh and I finished our final game today.

Really excellently run tournament. Now if I could just beat you once....

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by browni3141 on Jan 12^th, 2013, 2:11am

It looks like two of the pairs will not finish.
I also thank your for the tournament. I had a lot of fun and got to play some strong players (like chessandgo! :D)

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 12^th, 2013, 2:38pm

on 01/12/13 at 02:11:33, browni3141 wrote:

It looks like two of the pairs will not finish.

This is sad, but I must say again how impressed I am that the earlier rounds kept on schedule without use of the official scheduler. Kudos to the players for staying motivated and cooperating about finding times!

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by Adanac on Jan 15^th, 2013, 7:12am

Thanks browni3141 for pointing out an error in the Wiki. I've fixed the browni-Nombril score to 4-2. If anyone else finds a mistake, please let me know. The tournament is now over and I'll have to award victories to Dolus and ocmiente by forfeit because their opponents have not completed their matches. The prizes & deposit refunds will be paid out later this week.

If anyone has any feedback for the tournament, please post it here. I won't be a running a tournament in 2013 but we could have another in 2014 if there's enough demand. My own thoughts are: (1) it's a bit laborious to run this tournament because many of the games are non-event when they're played and then I have to manually change them to event games one by one (2) several players enjoyed the matches and liked have another event throughout the year but (3) by the third round, a lot of players started to lose interest, especially in the consolation section.

In the future I would make the following changes:
- It's far too difficult to have multiple registration pages and to hope for even numbers of players in each one, so next time I'll have one page for the whole tournament and then split people up by top 8, next top 8, etc. It was an administrative nightmare the way I did it this year.
- There shouldn't be a 3rd round consolation, since that was the point at which many people lost interest. But maybe there could be an opt-in for the final round for players that want a pre-WC training match.

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by Dolus on Jan 15^th, 2013, 12:54pm

Those sound like ideal changes. Thanks for running this!

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by Adanac on Jan 17^th, 2013, 1:46pm

Here are the payouts for the final round. I'll start paying these out in the next few minutes, along with returning deposits:

Chessandgo: 1462 Arimaa Points (6.5 shares)
Mistre: 787 (3.5)
Browni3141: 731 (3.25)
Adanac: 562 (2.5)
Nombril: 506 (2.25)
Woh: 450 (2.0)

Harren: 1287 Arimaa Points (5.5 shares)
Ocmiente: 1053 (4.5)
Dolus: 1053 (4.5)
Braveheart: 878 (3.75)
Thiagor: 819 (3.5)
Jacka: 410 (1.75)
Ginrunner: 0 (forfeit)
Tellmarch: 0 (forfeit)

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by Harren on Jan 18^th, 2013, 3:48pm

I liked it a lot! Thanks for organising this event, Adanac.

I can imagine playing two rounds of up to 7 consolation games is not that much fun. Would be good to change that in the future.

I also agree with your first suggested change.

Title: Re: Ironman Tournament, Round 3
Post by chessandgo on Jan 23^rd, 2013, 3:47am

Thanks for organizing this event Greg, it was fun!