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Double Weekend Report: Nevada and California States

DukeFireBird said:
Gabriel, the reason behind the 7 rounds of swiss is simple.

TIME CONSTRAINT.

Many players hate the swiss - 1, but it has to be done in some instances. It was not poor planing on Karl's part, the attendance spike is really what happened there.

In reality, organizers have 2 options when dealing with time constraint. Swiss - 1, or flighting.
Flighting opens up more grapes than really needed, and it actually harder to setup as you can only set that up during the same day, which delays the tournament start time.

Considering CA states was an increase from last year, I am happy to see those numbers.

Grats on your top cut in CA though, not an easy feat to accomplish (having only done it once myself)
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We we're still there @ 2am :/ and an unnecessary dinner break. I highly doubt it was Time Constraints. We told him about the potential attendance in Nevada, and he didn't listen to us until he actually saw it.
 
The time between rounds was only long enough for us to get all the match slips in and get the results in the computers. Any matches that went to and/or beyond time just added to how long that took to do before the new pairings could be done.
 
I was done and eating a late dinner at 10:30 after California States 2008 and that was with 7 rounds a T8. This had a T16 and we can't even finish by 1:30 am? Always some excuse here, so sick of it. I'm going to NorCal where at least Susan knows how to run a major event, what a joke.
 
Scizor said:
I was done and eating a late dinner at 10:30 after California States 2008 and that was with 7 rounds a T8. This had a T16 and we can't even finish by 1:30 am? Always some excuse here, so sick of it. I'm going to NorCal where at least Susan knows how to run a major event, what a joke.
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But weren't rounds 30 minutes then instead of the 40 minutes now? Not an excuse, but just pointing out how things have changed since then.
 
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