Re: Dallas and Ross merge tournaments

[ross smith <smithr@wfu.edu>]

In answer to what's below:

Not sure I'm being "serious" here myself. Seems like something to take 
seriously enough as a thought experiment, however.

Would assume two presets.

--Ross

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Heather L Walters wrote:

>    I am not sure if Ross is being serious here but there is a preset
> problem. Normally  8 rounders preset 4 and power 4. If you preset 6 and
> power 2 you will end up with huge discrepencies in brackets (something
> Ross seems to care deeply about). I can get an easy draw for the first
> four drop the next two and still be 4-2 (somewhat likely to clear). If you
> solve this by making the whole tournament preset 2 power 4 or 6
> (depending on which group you are in)the amount of time for powering two
> additional rounds seems to increase greatly the burden on the people in
> the eight bracket.
>    Additionally the likelyhood of there being more then one lucky 4-0
> hitting another lucky 4-0 at 100 team tournaments skews the bracket even
> more. You now have a 5-1 that might normally be 4-4 or 5-3 in an eight
> round tournment. The difference in seeding for a 5-1 and a 5-3 is HUGE.
>    I guess that the use of a pretournament ranking system (a,b,c,d teams)
> might solve this some, but I know in CEDA I have seen some real easy lines
> through big tournaments until you hit the deep prelims using a four round
> preset.
> 
> 
> martin che harris
> 
> 

Ross Smith
Wake Forest University Debate
910-759-5268
Box 7324 Reynolda Station
Winston-Salem, NC  27109

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