Simultaneous Pairs
For some years in Hampshire we have run a F2F Jack-High pairs event.
One issue with restricted events is that players are not so keen to travel very far to play.
So this year in an atempt to get more entries, it has been suggetsed that the event is run at multiple (probably 3 or 4) locations spread around the County.
Obviously it could be run as a multiple section straightforward matchpoint pairs.
But would it be possible ( & fair!?) to run a multiple section Swiss Pairs?
And how might we determine an overall winner?
Comments
Hmm. You'd want to make sure the rounds were the same number of boards at each club. Obviously you'd lose some of the point of a swiss event since you could only match within a heat. But you would still have a set of results you can matchpoint across the sections, potentially. I'm not sure about the practicalities.
We used to do this type of thing at Brighton years ago (im sure gordon remembers well!!) where we had very large numbers and we had to split into sections. But its simpler since the section participants never change, so you just combine everything together at the end of event (rather than session) for an overall result.
You set up the 3 or 4 section Swiss Pairs event, on each computer and just Bridgemate for the particular section at each venue. Then you can email the section data to the 'Master' venue combining all sections and rescore the whole field'
So practicable yes - but does need a little preparation as above.
I think if you do Swiss Pairs and are VP'ing you can't award "place" masterpoints across the field but only per Section. (BB3.8.2)
I'd like to know what Gordon says because their was an idea to run the CI Green point in 2 venues as travel costs between Islands are expensive.
In Brighton when I went you might be in a Section but only for 3 or 4 matches and then moved up or down according to your score.
Yes, at Brighton the sections were merged at the end of each session, but we still worried that someone might sit at the top of section 2 in the final session, winning all matches 20-0 and ending up winning! It didn't ever happen.
Presumably you mean MP Handbook 3.8.2 - I dont think this applies as it IS a matchpointed event
I think 3.8.1 applies so you award Masterpoints as a single field at the end. Thats what always happened at Brighton.
At the Summored er Meeting, I think we match pointed each section separately, so the match points and victory points did not change when the sections were merged. This format works because there were mulitple sessions, so by the time the event reached session 4 on Sunday, the expectation was that the winners and high ranked players would have been playing in the top section. (Gordon's comments above notwithstanding.)
A one session, multi-section Swiss Pairs score across the field (as proposed in OP) is a very different format.