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</head><body><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">On 01 October 2018 at 12:20 TobyManning via tournament-org <<a href="mailto:tournament-org@lists.britgo.org">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">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><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tournament-org mailing list<br><a href="mailto:tournament-org@lists.britgo.org">tournament-org@lists.britgo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.britgo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tournament-org" rel="noopener" target="_blank">http://lists.britgo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tournament-org</a></blockquote></body></html>