Absolutely correct, no need to make it the GC tourney 4.
I suggest/propose...
8 players, 8 games.
Each player designates a game they want to have in the tournament.
Once the 8 players and games are known, there will be a one week period in
which any participant may veto a suggested game. That game will be
replaced by any other game chosen by the person who orignally chose the
game that got vetoed. The replacement may not be vetoed by anyone.
Once the games and players are known, the players will be put into two
groups of 4. The groups will be determined by current rankings. Among
the 8 participants, pool A will include the players with the 1st, 3rd, 5th
and 7th rankings. Pool B will have 2,4,6,8.
Player 1 will play Player 3, Player 5 and Player 7 in the game Player 1
brought to the tourney, as well as the game their opponent brought to the
tourney. Same format for Pool B. Each player will be involved in 6
tournament games simultaneously. Time setting will be a pace of 4 moves
per week, same as the GC Tournament 3.
1 point for a win, 0 for a loss, .5 for a draw.
At the conclusion of the round robin, top 2 from each pool will create a
winners pool, and the bottom 2 from each pool will form a losers pool.
The same format for round 2.
After that, the top two in the winners pool will each nominate 2 of the
games that were brought to the tournament and play each other in those
four games to determine the champion. This could also be done between the
bottom 2 of the winners pool, the top two of the losers pool and the bottom
two of the losers pool.
The total number of entrants need not be restricted to 8, and any multiple
of 4 would be fine with this format. If the number were 10, pools of 5
possible but that has each player playing 8 games at the same time and
that could be a bit much.
If there is any interest in this sort of tournament I'd be happy to
organize it, but would need someone to do the tech bits (assigning games,
putting up charts and stats and that sort of thing.
ex:
Player Game
Elvis Alice Chess
Aretha Time Travel Chess
Ray Omega Chess
Janis Janus Chess
Karen Korean Chess
Snowman Falcon Chess
Horse Crazyhouse
Joe Joyce Anti-King Chess
Aretha uses veto to eliminate Janus Chess. Janus replaces it with Cannons
of Chesstonia.
Player Game
Elvis Alice Chess
Aretha Time Travel Chess
Ray Omega Chess
Janis Cannons of Chesstonia (replacing Janus)
Karen Korean Chess
Snowman Falcon Chess
Horse Crazyhouse
Joe Joyce Anti-King Chess
With the help of David Paulowich, it is determined that over the past 365
days, the players rankings fall in this order:
1 Joe Joyce, 2 Elvis, 3 Ray, 4 Horse, 5 Karen, 6 Snowman, 7 Aretha and 8
Janus
Pool A is
Joe Ray Karen Aretha
Pool B is
Elvis Horse Snowman Janus
Joe vs Ray Anti-King
Joe vs Ray Omega Chess
Joe vs Karen Anti-King
Joe vs Karen Korean
Joe vs Aretha Anti-King
Joe vs Aretha Time Travel
Similarly designed schedule for each player.
End of round one:
Name wins losses draws points
Joe 5 0 1 5.5
Karen 4 2 0 4
Aretha 2 4 0 2
Ray 0 5 1 .5
Joe and Karen go onto winner's pool, Aretha and Ray onto the loser's
pool.
End of winner's pool:
Name wins losses draws points
Joe 5 0 1 5.5
Janus 4 2 0 4
Elvis 2 4 0 2
Karen 0 5 1 .5
Joe will choose two of the games, Janus will choose two of the games, and
they will play each other once in each game.
Overall winner is champion. In the event that they split the four games,
they each then choose one more game and play those two...and continue as
necessary until there is a winner.
Any thoughts?
