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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Current BGA guidelines say 4-8 players for a 3 round tournament, so in this example I would cut it at 2dan.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If we do have a situation where there is one less 2d and one more 1d, then I suggest use GoR and cut it off at the higher recommended guideline number – in this case 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>What does GoDraw do at the moment with this combination?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Regards,<br>Colin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Matt Marsh via tournament-org <tournament-org@lists.britgo.org> <br><b>Sent:</b> 29 July 2020 12:24<br><b>To:</b> tournament-org@lists.britgo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [tournament-org] McMahon Bar<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've been pondering this:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Let's suppose I am organising a tournament and I have a distribution of players towards the top a bit like this:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3d, 2d, 2d, 2d, 1d, 1d, 1d, 1d, 1d, 1d, 1d, 1k, 1k, ...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If it's a 3 round tournament then I'd ideally like 8 players above the bar. If I took the 3-dans, 2-dans and 1-dans then I would have 11 players. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Would it be appropriate to split the group of 1-dans, based on GoR, so that some of the 1-dans are above the bar and some are below it? ie. some 1-dans would have a different inital MMS to the others.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Matt<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=sig18623274><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Matt Marsh</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:matt@crazedbytes.net">matt@crazedbytes.net</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="tel:+44-7795-297779">+44 (0)7795 297779</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>