Dennis "Whitey" Young
Verified Member
Darmoose, I was not advocating a race to 3 in a RR, I am just pointing out what you can expect the avg. to be, based off the last win loss record of matches from the Seniors bracket, and the avg. score/match is 3 to 1, which is equivalent to playing 8 groupings of 4 with ea. player playing 4 games, so I referenced it. That's all. If you have a beef about race to 3 RR take it up with mr3cushion, he knows a lot more than I when it comes to RR. I do see his point on how a long match gets equaled out by a short match after researching the Seniors bracket. Some of the longer matches 3/2 were played towards the end of the bracket, and more exhaustion had sit in.
Currently I would not advocate a RR with ea. player playing 3 games in 4 groups of 8 for Seniors or MOT. Unless there is an extra day added. I am sticking to 2 games ea. because 1. I do not want to exhaust the players, and 2. I feel these events are to be enjoyable and have some free time to match up and socialize, and 3. the players that exit the tournament and those members that just post comments I do think really realize just how exhausted the players are that stay in the tournament to the final stages. At this age this is very critical. I would not advocate anything that does this!
So I am ok with playing two games each against 7 players to narrow the field to 16. and narrow it again to 8 and then having a single elimination bracket race to 2 with a extended match in the final. And if this takes to long then we should of realized that mr3cushion 8 groups of 4 is the correct format for it is shorter to play and still players can play more games than with the typical 3/3 format.
This is based upon the current playing time in either the Seniors or MOT. It is not realistic to base it upon an extra day at this point! Whitey
Currently I would not advocate a RR with ea. player playing 3 games in 4 groups of 8 for Seniors or MOT. Unless there is an extra day added. I am sticking to 2 games ea. because 1. I do not want to exhaust the players, and 2. I feel these events are to be enjoyable and have some free time to match up and socialize, and 3. the players that exit the tournament and those members that just post comments I do think really realize just how exhausted the players are that stay in the tournament to the final stages. At this age this is very critical. I would not advocate anything that does this!
So I am ok with playing two games each against 7 players to narrow the field to 16. and narrow it again to 8 and then having a single elimination bracket race to 2 with a extended match in the final. And if this takes to long then we should of realized that mr3cushion 8 groups of 4 is the correct format for it is shorter to play and still players can play more games than with the typical 3/3 format.
This is based upon the current playing time in either the Seniors or MOT. It is not realistic to base it upon an extra day at this point! Whitey
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