owh. it's too pity that I just see this right now.maybe I'll join later in the next tourney

Did you already make the pairing, Herman?

Are we going to start with the initial rounds while the 2011 tournament is still on-going? (To answer my own question, I think the answer should be "yes", since we haven't even gotten to the point of deciding on a format for the final yet.)

Are we going to use the same system where there are never more than than eight matches going on in the winner's bracket at any one time? (I defer to people with more experience organizing tournaments, but I lean towards "no". Although it might be counter-productive to start out with Herman playing Lincarte in the first round, there has to be a compromise between straight-up double elimination and what we were doing last year that will lead to more matches per round.)

Sorry, I did not make a pairing yet. I've been ill for almost a week, and am currently abroad, so I didn't get to it yet. I'll try to do it ASAP!

The format will be the same, yes. 16 players enter the first round, 8 are seeded into the second, 8 into the third. I'll write a more thorough description when I post the first pairing.

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I think you should go with a fixed bracket again. IMO that's one of the things that went right in the first tournament, but didn't work so well in the second.

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I agree. When running the second tournament, I wanted to avoid the possibility of the unpleasant situation in which a player can be knocked out by playing the same opponent twice, once in each bracket. So I figured that I would transfer players to the lower bracket by hand. But the down side was that everyone was waiting on me, and unable to proceed until I had done it.
Overall, the tradeoff was not worthwhile.

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I think with smart but fixed placement into the loser bracket, the chance of this happening can be made pretty small. Since most matches have a clear favourite, it should be possible to predict the development of the brackets reasonably well.

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