Recently this tournament called the World Amateur Go Championship took place, you may have heard of it before. As per normal, the tournament is run as a Swiss Competition. The first tiebreaker was SOS and the secondary tiebreaker seems to have been SOS-2 that is where we ignore the first 2 opponents. In this case 2 players couldn't make it to the tournament, although they were scheduled to play in round 1 instead they did not appear and their opponent had a walkover win. What should happen to SOS whenever you effectively have a bye.
I ask because maybe it could change the results. In Europe the most important places are from 3 to 10, because nobody ever finishes higher. (That's just a little joke by the way.) Anyway, Cornel Burzo finished in the seventh place, but he gets a SOS of 0 from his first round opponent. Is it fair? Should he instead get something like average strength of his other opponents, rounded down?
What is the most popular or respected approach for such a situation?
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; TC[T170604B]
; CL[A]
; EV[38th World Amateur Go Championship]
; PC[CN, Guiyang]
; DT[2017-06-04,2017-06-07]
; HA[h9]
; KM[7.5]
; TM[80]
; CM[ (submitted by cieply)]
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