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Does anyone have a program to assign and manage 'points' for tourney winners? I want to assign points for top placings, then manage the points and generate a report or summary or rankings. tx.

Suggestions after a few tourneys: - clocked rounds, 8 minutes in a small field, longer in a bigger field - keep the length medium, 10-12 boards. In longer tourneys, players will leave in the middle. - I tried 1 board rounds and gave up, too many disconnects on the round changes.

In fact, that is the way it is done here. cheers,

Yes, the movement is controlled by a computer, so a fancy scrambling movement is desirable in order to create meaningful overall results. This of course, is not something that can be done with live players except in a small field Howell movement. However, I believe that the efforts here are trying to bite off more than needs to be chewed. I remember reading an article on switching directon for a few pairs for only 2 rounds of the tourney. The analysis showed that this dramatically improved the overall comparison so that an overall winner could be determined. The movement is simple enough that with a bit of learning, it could be done with a live field. I will post more details when I find the article. With the aid of the computer, the movement can be a little more advanced. Something like each round, 2 pairs change direction. Or even (Number players)/(Rounds of play-1) switch each round. Then almost everyone will have one round in the other direction. Eg, 50 players, 16 boards in 8 rounds. N=50, R=8. (50_/(8-1)=7 players each round. First round, no switching, in the next 7 rounds, 49 players will switch direction for 1 round. Simple and very effective. cheers,

suggestion, add some extra 'delay' to the fast pairs, make them wait up to 2 minutes after they finish the board.

Is there some problem with keeping the posted scores around longer? Like 24 hours? Perhaps sort the list of tourneys with completed ones at the bottom, current ones at the top, and pending ones in the middle with the next one at the top of this list? Or is there some other place I can review completed tourneys? tx.

I would like something like option C. I would like a chance to review the results, make adjustments as necessary, record the winners names and prepare an announcement congratulating the winners. Then I manually release the results when they are ready for public viewing. Problems with this: - director gets disconnected or forgets to release the results. - irritating players that want to know NOW!!! - irritating players that want adjustments after the tourney is over. - irritating players that are just generally irritating. cheers,