Re: Reflections on Crown

["Jay R. Shaner" <konrad@bigdog.fred.net>]

Poster: "Jay R. Shaner" <konrad@bigdog.fred.net>

Greetings from Konrad,

Sir Corby had 2 byes - 1st and 7th rounds.


> Date:          Tue, 05 May 1998 19:55:55 -0400
> From:          Jeffrey Sussman <jsussman@pop.erols.com>
> Organization:  Social & Scientific Systems
> To:            atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
> Subject:       Re: Reflections on Crown
> Reply-to:      Jeffrey Sussman <jsussman@pop.erols.com>

> 
> Poster: Jeffrey Sussman <jsussman@pop.erols.com>
> 
> Personally, I like the traditional format better too, but for those
> interested we did figure out some improvements while we saw how the
> tournament developed.
> 
> If you were doing this format you could avoid duplicates if you set up a
> procedure for handling them beforehand.  The easiest method would be to
> throw the pairing back in the basket if the pair had already fought. 
> But, if chosen and second time for that round you keep it even if it's a
> repeat.  One could also avoid repeat byes if you picked them first
> (instead of last) and threw them back in if they already had a bye.  We
> got lucky Saturday and no one got more than one bye (I think?).  We
> didn't implement these rules because we didn't figure it out until after
> the tournament had started.
>  
> Yours in Service,
> Duke Richard Fitzgilbert, 
> Earl Marshal of Atlantia
> 
> > 3.  I admit to some perplexion as to the format of the tourney...for
> > those who were not there, it was random draw all the way through (the
> > first round may have been challenges, I could not see clearly, but I
> > know from the second round on it was pure random draw all the way
> > through).  This certainly has the merits of ensuring an unbiased list,
> > but it also had a number of disadvantages.  There was no easy way to
> > sense how people were doing at the progression.  There was no sense of
> > where we were in the tournament (When the Heralds are surprised that the
> > final round is about to begin, you know something is amiss).  The byes
> > came way late, when there were a final 3 competitors.  There were at
> > least two situations where the same competitors fought against each
> > other twice.  All in all, an interesting experiment, but I hope that it
> > is not repeated.
> > 
> > (I am prepared to hear discussion as to positive merits of the list
> > style chosen, and my mind may be convinced otherwise, but that is my
> > current opinion)
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