Candidates Format

I think all of those times are in a good range for me, but of course it's up to the people actually playing! Once they confirm I'll check my calendar and see which ones would conflict with lessons. I'll try to stream coverage of as many matches as possible though.

@Atrophied Great!

Participants: Any objections? Comments?

Hey FischyVishy,

Appreciate that you've spent a lot of time putting this schedule together, but unfortunately I can only commit to 2 out of 7 of the suggested times (allyouneedisluft and blitzbullet).

Work commitments are going to rule out March 13 and 15 (xuanet and eekarf), while 3 of the other games commence too late in the day on March 10, 11 and 18 (TwelveTeen, mastertan, chickencrossroad).

Would it be reasonable to allow the players to determine appropriate times with each other as they have done during the event so far?

Cheers,
JannLee

@JannLee Absolutely! I just need people to reply :). I don't mind having more than one match per day, but we really need to have this schedule done before Friday as I'm going to be even more busy by then!

@blitzbullet @eekarf @xuanet @chickencrossroad @mastertan @TwelveTeen @allyouneedisluft Any opinions?

Thanks Fischy for spending the time to create the matchups. If possible, I would like to have less games in a week.

I'm quite happy to continue with something similar to what we did with the qualifiers - 1 week negotiation, 1 week to play.

I think this might be more enjoyable for the prediction tournament as well. Predict new matches every two weeks rather than predicting the entire block at once.

Cheers

Oh...That's a brilliant idea, hmm.

We have 28 matches to complete. 7 a week sounds good - that's 2 months if there's one week for negotiations. Does everyone approve? Of course, we must not have the "big" matches all take place in the first week.

Thanks for your openness @FischyVishy,

Based on most players responding that a total of 2 months duration would be reasonable, I'd like to suggest the following to the group.

There are 4 matches per round and 7 rounds to be played, making 28 matches in total. If we allowed 8 weeks in total, this would allow the first week to be set aside for predictions and match time negotiations. The second week would be available for the 1st round of play and also the 2nd round of predictions and negotiations. The third week would be available for the 2nd round of play and also the 3rd round of predictions and negotiations, etc. It would look something like below:

Week 1 = no matches + 1st round prediction and planning
Week 2 = 1st round play and 2nd round prediction and planning
Week 3 = 2nd round play and 3rd round prediction and planning
Week 4 = 3rd round play and 4th round prediction and planning
Week 5 = 4th round play and 5th round prediction and planning
Week 6 = 5th round play and 6th round prediction and planning
Week 7 = 6th round play and 7th round prediction and planning
Week 8 = 7th round play

The reason why we can have rolling weeks without gap weeks is because the prior round no longer influences the available players in the next round.

FischyVishy, in my opinion every match is going to be a "big" match among this talented group of players. If you'd like to influence the order of matches, you could simply prescribe the 4 matches to be played in each of the rounds according to the schedule above. After that, the players can negotiate and agree the times themselves and you won't have the burden of organising the full schedule.

If we have players that have holiday/study periods or cannot play on certain weeks, this general plan of 1 game per week over 8 weeks also allows more flexibility for them to get ahead of schedule slightly or otherwise catch up on any missed rounds so the tournament progresses smoothly.

I agree that we need more feedback from players: @allyouneedisluft @blitzbullet @mastertan @chickencrossroad @TwelveTeen @xuanet @eekarf

Thoughts from everyone?

@JannLee Excellent proposal!

I think random pairings will be best. "Big" matches are of course based on seedings, but the ratings are so close that I don't really see why anyone would complain if he played the top players in a short period of time.

I hope we can get this awesome phase of the championship started next week :).

I think jannlee's suggestion is a good one and is pretty straightforward. The 1 match per week should work fine for me.

Thanks