mrdct Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 I've just been reading bulletin #4 which has the draw for the Rosenblum qualifying and it seems quite odd that with a field of 145 teams they have split them up into 15 pools of 9 and one pool of 10. On the face of it, this generates byes for 135 teams in what already appears to be an unbelievably light playing schedule of just 48 boards per day (assuming 16-board matches based on the session length of 140 minutes). Obviously 145 is a difficult number to deal with to reduce the field to 64 teams, but surely something better could've been worked out to not give byes to so many teams. Unless, of course, the 9-team pools are going to have triangles or run successive American Whilst movements, but that sounds like a logistical nightmare. I wonder what movement they are going to use in the ladies event to spend three days reducing a field of 31 teams to 32! Also, are the session times in the bulletin correct? The first session is 110 minutes (10:30-12:20) but the second and third sessions are 140 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulg Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 I've just been reading bulletin #4 which has the draw for the Rosenblum qualifying and it seems quite odd that with a field of 145 teams they have split them up into 15 pools of 9 and one pool of 10. On the face of it, this generates byes for 135 teams in what already appears to be an unbelievably light playing schedule of just 48 boards per day (assuming 16-board matches based on the session length of 140 minutes). Obviously 145 is a difficult number to deal with to reduce the field to 64 teams, but surely something better could've been worked out to not give byes to so many teams. Unless, of course, the 9-team pools are going to have triangles or run successive American Whilst movements, but that sounds like a logistical nightmare. I wonder what movement they are going to use in the ladies event to spend three days reducing a field of 31 teams to 32! Also, are the session times in the bulletin correct? The first session is 110 minutes (10:30-12:20) but the second and third sessions are 140 minutes. It is my presumption that the bulletin scribe has failed to add 2:20 to 10:30 correctly .. or was originally told that it was a 10am start. I'm certainly happier to be in the group of ten! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomi2 Posted October 5, 2010 Report Share Posted October 5, 2010 easy solution would be: let the 9 teams of group a play against the 9 teams of group b... c vs. d etc.every team plays 9 matches against the same opps in their group and 4 advance to KO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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