Writing New Movements in EBU Score
I need to write the movements for the Junior Camrose.
I have never understood the meaning of the first digit of the five digits in line 1 of EBU Score movements and I can't find an explanation.
For instance, this is the movement used for the first round of the Camrose. (In each round. each team plays 2 x 16 board matches against the same team.)
5,6,32,16,2
4,6,1,4,6,2
3,5,1,3,5,2
2,1,1,2,1,2
6,4,1,6,4,2
5,3,1,5,3,2
1,2,1,1,2,2
Top line:
1st digit ?
2nd digit - number of tables
3rd digit total number of boards in play
4th digit number of boards each round
5th digit number of matches/rounds
Comments
Movements are in comma separated files.
Pairs
Movement, Tables, Boards, Boards per Round, Rounds, Missing Pair
Teams
Movement, Tables, Boards, Boards per Round, Rounds
Individual
Movement, Tables, Boards, Board per Round, Rounds, Players
Internally, within each program there is a Movement Type of:
Pairs
0 –Howell - pairs may play in any direction against any pair.
1 - Mitchell - pairs retain their direction throughout
2 - Switched Mitchell - pairs may Arrow switch
Teams
5 - American Whist
6 - Score Break
7 - Stagger though it has no practical use (always 5)
Individual
3 - 1-winner
4 - 4-winner
Thanks - very helpful.
In the team movements I have been using for the various Camroses, some have a "0" and some have a "5" as the first digit. Does this make a difference?
Also, all the movements in EBU TSMovements.txt (except [M146] Patton which uses "0") use "5" , including the score-break ones, so does "6" have significance?
Practical experience: when writing movements 'by hand' I always use 5 as the first number on the first row for teams.