[tournament-org] WhereIsTheBar

[ptm at tobymanning.co.uk]

Gerry: 

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? 

Toby 

On 2018-10-01 14:40, Gerry Gavigan wrote:

> 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  
> 
> By any measure the 5 dan has already won. 
> 
> As a 1 kyu (I wish) without a handicap I am going to have a rubbish time. 
> 
> The purity of some tournament protocol should be secondary  
> 
> 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. On 01 October 2018 at 12:20 TobyManning via tournament-org <tournament-org at lists.britgo.org> wrote:
> 
> I set it at 1 kyu, but if an organiser set it at  2kyu I would not complain.
> 
> Setting it at 3 kyu would be wrong.
> 
> Toby
> 
> On 01/10/2018 11:45, Geoff Kaniuk via tournament-org wrote: You have just registered your last player who happens to be 1d and 
> people are waiting impatiently,  wanting to get on with your 3 round 
> McMahon tournament.
> 
> You are now faced with with the problem of where to set the the bar. 
> Suppose in this tournament the top players are:
> 
> 5d 1d 1d 1k 1k 2k 2k 3k 3k 4k 4k 5k .....
> 
> Assuming all players enter at a realistic grade, where would you set 
> the bar?
> 
> It would be interesting to see your instinctive answer, rather than 
> consulting the Tournament Organiser's Handbook. 
> 
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