THAT HAD TO BE THE ABSOLUTELY WORST CHOICE OF WORDS I'VE EVER SEEN, CONSIDERING YOU WEREN'T AT THE EVENT NOR SITTING BEHIND EACH MACHINE! So you're saying that I went into the application and did something to PURPOSELY make it dump? Anything could be farther from the truth.
Let me lay out the high points:
10 & Under:
I had just finished entering all of the players (37) taking care not to enter extra characters, etc. I clicked Finish to get to the pairings screens. I clicked New Round (as Save doesn't do anything but save your admin info for the event) - Error 9: Subcript out of range. Jimmer ended up re-entering all players from the pick list so that I could do 11-14. Round 3. All of the 2 round Bye Players have Byes in Round 3. Had to manually break all of the Bye Pairings and pair the Bye Players with each other. This raised two issues:
1 - Bye players who had to be paired manually now had 3 wins at the beginning of Round 3, which we all know is impossible. TMS seems to have a glitch that does not clear the win from the current round until after the correct match result is entered and a new round is paired.
2 - New pairings were pushed to the bottom tables.
Also noticed that there were two players that were in the wrong age group. Dropped said players.
11 - 14:
Entered 63 players into this event. Clicked Finish. Paired new round. Paired successfully. Started round. Entered results. Clicked Save. Clicked New Round. All 2 Round Bye Players were paired with each other and were not assigned Byes. Broke Pairings. Assigned Byes to all 2 Round Bye Players. Clicked Finish. Error 9: Subscript out of range. Reopened TMS. Reloaded tournament from Saved File. Paired Round 2. Undid pairings as the two players that were mistakenly enrolled in 10- were just noticed. Enrolled players in correct tournament. Assigned those two players Round 1 Byes. Saved event. Paired Round 2. All 2 Round Bye Players were paired amongst themselves again. Broke those pairings. Assigned Byes to all 2 Round Bye Players. Clicked Finish, no error. Paired Round 3. By the end of Round 3, two players had came forward to say that their points were wrong. Both players were the misenrolled players. I went back in the tournament history and checked each player. One player was missing from R1, the other was paired in Round 2. For the player that was paired in Round 2, I broke those pairings and assigned both players a Bye. I was unable to go back and reenroll the first player in R1. I tried manually editing a copy of the TRN file to give him a Bye in Round 1. When that TRN file was opened, TMS presented the following Info Box: Invalid File Format. All formatting was done in accordance with other lines in the TRN file. I asked Jimmer et al for their help in getting the score correct, nothing was offered in solution. At this point, we manually had to adjust his points on the Standings Sheet from 6 to 9 (as he had won Round 3). Margaret and I tried every round to fix this situation until the Final Standings after Swiss were posted.
15 & Over:
Round 3. All of the 2 round Bye Players have Byes in Round 3. Had to manually break all of the Bye Pairings and pair the Bye Players with each other. We're again faced with the two issues that this brings to bear. Round 5. We've had quite a few drops at this point. We're presented with the decision to pair players with with people they've played before. We select that players should NOT play against other people they've already played and confirm that desicion with the software. Pairings look OK. Round 7. Dozens of players are paired with people they've already played without being notified buy the software that this was going to occour. We delete and repair the round 3 separate times with the same result. We offer two options - either play it out or wait while we repair by hand with tiebreakers. Players elect the former.
Where in here do you see that we've purposely sabotaged this event? We did everything within our power to make this right and equitable for all players. Nobody was targeted for being, "screwed over." There was no purposeful manipulation of any components to make things blow up.
I'd like to respectfully request to the Mods and Admins that ANY posts that people are complaining about how the event was run/non-reported cheating issues/other miscellaneous complaints about Nationals be locked and those posters be referred to
[email protected] unless there is something constructive to be had from said discussion. The PTO, staff, and PUI are in talks about what went wrong at Nationals and how to improve for future events. We all know that these boards are not the official conduit to lodge complaints with POP/PUI.
In fact, let me quote a phrase:
Professor Dav said:
Let me say that as long as everyone believes that this is the place to make official complaints, rather than sending those reports and complaints to us at PUI, this will in fact continue.
If you think we don't care about this stuff, you couldn't be more wrong.
However, we can't do anything about it when anonymous posts are made in a forum like this. I've been singing this same song since last summer, and it's barely made a dent in the way that people on this forum behave in regards to official action.
You want official action, email one of the official addresses. Trust me, we actually do work on this stuff.
Thanks,
Professor Dav
