RFC: Matchplay tournament

Aug 23, 2011 09:52

Request For Comments. If I can get everything lined up I'll get this on the calendar this week ( Read more... )

matchplay tournament, scrabble

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sr_orangepants August 23 2011, 14:22:25 UTC
It's my birthday that weekend. If I come, can other people bring presents? :)

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spherulitic August 23 2011, 14:23:49 UTC
Sure thing :)

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lordiceman August 23 2011, 15:00:30 UTC
Love the idea, I'd be totally in... but we're in Peru from 11/11 - 11/20.

I guess the solution is for us to create more matchplay events.

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lordiceman August 23 2011, 15:21:17 UTC
The Day 2 schedule feels a tad ambitious. For me, 1 game = ~1 hour, but I suppose things move more quickly without waiting for pairings, resignations, etc. I guess you keep the post mortems short and sweet.

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spherulitic August 23 2011, 15:37:03 UTC
Day 2 will be from 10-18 games. I'm thinking that resignations will need to be strategic so you don't get exhausted. Maybe it'll end up being way too much and if so I'd certainly cut back in future versions of the event. I'm optimistic it would work because you're not waiting for pairings. In Utica this weekend, we had a double RR -- same opp twice in a row -- and finished a 4-game afternoon session in 3 hours 15 mins.

My original idea was to do 2 11's on Day 2 and go from about 7am to midnight or 1am but that was probably way too much.

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cuzzakenji August 23 2011, 15:59:24 UTC
resignations izz DEFINITELY strategic n clock management is even more so. best of 9--n ANYTHING--would go fair quick if muhfuckas knew WHEN 2 resign a game.

inna 1st round (OWL), only one of da 4 matches might go 5-4. Kate fuckin whinin about playin somebody multiple games--any of yall EVVA played a SESSION???????? whatdafuck IZZ a session 2 yall--7 games???????

Collins would be a problem cuz large early game deficits are much more easily overcome.

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scrabblek8 August 23 2011, 15:18:16 UTC
the thought of playing someone i for 6+ games just isn't that exciting to me, but i might (with a ride there) be able to come and do color commentary or annotate.

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cuzzakenji August 23 2011, 15:38:46 UTC
God Bless you your heart cuz iss sure inna right place...

of course i LUV da idea n i MIGHT play, but if we play in Denny's n dey take 2 long 2 bring my food, muhfuckas'll fuck around n suspend me AGAIN...

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bnjy99 August 23 2011, 16:04:43 UTC
Oh Denny's...

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jalapic August 23 2011, 16:20:15 UTC
this is the test match scrabble to the one day tourney KOH format's 20/20.

unfortunately, nearly all tourneys this fall are unavailable to me due to work commitments.

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spherulitic August 23 2011, 16:30:25 UTC

Test Match Scrabble... TMS, I like it!

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evwhore August 24 2011, 01:21:41 UTC
If you win your first match by 200+ can you enforce the follow-on?

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