Optimum movement

Vlad

I am planning a pairs tournament for 24 tables to be played over two sessions in one day, single winner.
Our usual practice would be to have two sections of 12 tables each, share and relay Mitchell with arrow switches, with E/W swopping sections for the second session, N/S remaining where they were.

Is there a better, more equitable, method?

Grateful for advice.

gordonrainsford

You would be better keeping one NS line stationary, moving that EW to NS in the other line, moving the second NS line to EW in the same section, and moving the second EW to the play against the stationary NS line.

Otherwise you essentially have two fields with limited competition between them.

16248

You could do a share and relay (with arrow switches) with 24 rounds.
This would mean that players would have to wait for two days for the result and might not be able to discuss hands at the half way stage.

Peter

Is there anything to be said for running it as a quali-final instead?
Say with three sections of 8 tables in the first round?
It may get tricky depending on your constraints are on maximum number of boards you could play

If you did this is it better to seed the qualifier sections or leave them to be drawn randomly?

Vlad

@gordonrainsford said:
You would be better keeping one NS line stationary, moving that EW to NS in the other line, moving the second NS line to EW in the same section, and moving the second EW to the play against the stationary NS line.

Otherwise you essentially have two fields with limited competition between them.

Many thanks Gordon.