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Alashar · Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

Guess I was writing a reply about the same time Bogey was posting his. Sorry for the duplication!

Bogey · Joined: 18 Sep 06 Posts: 66

While points do lean in my favor and have been used consistently, in all fairness to Vinny the intial rules for the tournament state:

"Tie breaks will be decided by the player who has come 1st the most number of times in this round. If this is tied, the number of 1st places throughout the course of the tourney will be counted. If still tied, to be decided as above, counting the number of times players came 2nd. If still tied, the winner will be decided by the players’ average scores over the matches played in the tourney."

sedge · Joined: 15 Nov 06 Posts: 79 Location: Sydney, Australia

Hi guys.

Woah that was one insanely tight group! And yeah, points go 4, 3, 3, 1 in those cases.

And yep, Bogey's last post is right. I never thought we'd have to go to the nth degree to sort out tiebreaks, but now I'm glad I did set something down. I guess no method is ideal, but I had to choose something and decided to go for number of wins over number of points, a bummer for Bogey but hooray for Vinny!

So the first two contestants to enter the final are smlait and Vinny. Congratulations!

And commiserations to Bogey who actually finished with the most total points throughout the tourney from his semi final group (Bogey 39, smlait 38, Vinny 36 and JM 27). But I guess no rewards for lots of 2nd places Smile

The other semi is about half-done and it, too, is gonna be a nail-biter. Far too close to call.

Bogey · Joined: 18 Sep 06 Posts: 66

No sour grapes. The eventual winner will always have just a little doubt......LOL good luck to all and thanks for the tourney.

sedge · Joined: 15 Nov 06 Posts: 79 Location: Sydney, Australia

Yeah you get to claim a moral victory! Very Happy

cterrell · Joined: 18 Sep 06 Posts: 112 Location: Richmond, VA

So if I understand corectly, Brian moves on from our group along with Sedge? He and I both had 9 points for the round, but he had a 1st and I had 2 2nds.

Not that I'm complaining, given the median score is 10. That would be like a 7-9 NFL team complaining about losing a playoff spot on tiebreak... Rolling Eyes

Bogey · Joined: 18 Sep 06 Posts: 66

Enjoy lunch with Brian. I'm sure he won't bring up his advancing too many times...l Laughing

And if he wins it all......(shudder)

sedge · Joined: 15 Nov 06 Posts: 79 Location: Sydney, Australia

Yep that's right! Brian continues his perfect run of doing just enough to get through to the next round.

emmakennedybfd · Joined: 05 Feb 20 Posts: 11

great