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<p>Gerry:</p>
<p>Are you seriously saying there should NEVER be a bar, or are you saying that in this extreme case, the bar should be at 5 dan?</p>
<p>Toby</p>
<p>On 2018-10-01 14:40, Gerry Gavigan wrote:</p>
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<p>As set it sounds to me, on behalf of all of those several stones weaker than the 5 dan, that there should not be a bar </p>
<p>By any measure the 5 dan has already won.</p>
<p>As a 1 kyu (I wish) without a handicap I am going to have a rubbish time.</p>
<p>The purity of some tournament protocol should be secondary </p>
<p>If the tournament police are going to insist on a bar the TD should consider bribing the 5 dan not to enter for the greater good and encouraging the potential lambs-to-the-slaughter to turn up next year.</p>
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On 01 October 2018 at 12:20 TobyManning via tournament-org <<a href="mailto:tournament-org@lists.britgo.org" rel="noreferrer">tournament-org@lists.britgo.org</a>> wrote:<br /><br /><br />I set it at 1 kyu, but if an organiser set it at 2kyu I would not complain.<br /><br />Setting it at 3 kyu would be wrong.<br /><br />Toby<br /><br /><br />On 01/10/2018 11:45, Geoff Kaniuk via tournament-org wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">You have just registered your last player who happens to be 1d and <br />people are waiting impatiently, wanting to get on with your 3 round <br />McMahon tournament.<br /><br />You are now faced with with the problem of where to set the the bar. <br />Suppose in this tournament the top players are:<br /><br />5d 1d 1d 1k 1k 2k 2k 3k 3k 4k 4k 5k .....<br /><br />Assuming all players enter at a realistic grade, where would you set <br />the bar?<br /><br />It would be interesting to see your instinctive answer, rather than <br />consulting the Tournament Organiser's Handbook.</blockquote>
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