Gauging Interest--Falklands Tourney

[Jeff Conner]

Steve

The players in the tournament have been split into two groups. You are competing against the members in your group for the ability to play the championship game, which by the way, is next round. The group on the left is the first side players in this tournament. They are trying to gain as many points as possible. The group on the right are the second side players; they want to have as few points as possible. If these were all of the results, you would see Laza playing Kolc for the championship. Unfortunately, for Laza and Kolc, the one outstanding game is between the top two players so far, Rabbit and Embis and there is a good chance that these standings will shuffle around a bit. And for those of you not in the championship, you will play the similar ranked player on the opposing team for successive places in the last round(ie, the second highest/lowest will play for third and fourth place). It is possible that you will play someone you have played before.

One of the downsides of this tournament is that one group has always been the attacker. I figured out a way to modify the scores so that this is not a requirement in the future. Let me know whether you like this style better or the standard double mirror system. We can return to mirror games if you prefer.