https://en.boardgamearena.com/#!tournament?id=11471
In this tournament I won both the first matchups securing a guaranteed 1st place for such a low player count. Rather than having tomorrows matchup let the other two players face each other to compete for 2nd vs 3rd, the tournament instantly concluded. Since the tie breaker is the standing of opponent they faced (same person so tied again) and then the elo of that opponent (I had won in the first day so my elo was higher in the second game played) the person who was randomly selected to go second (I believe the lowest elo player in the registration) gets the 2nd place win over the player who went against me first.
This is not the first time I have seen a swiss system end prematurely when 1st place was undefeated and all other places had at least one loss even if several matches remained. There were enough remaining matches for the 1st place to be upset by the 2nd had the matches gone the right ways or at the very least 2nd and 3rd place titles were still up for shuffling among several different players who had a chance for it.
https://en.boardgamearena.com/#!tournament?id=11464
That one for example ended 2 games before the end with a swiss system 7 round with 8 players (I thought it was going to behave exactly like a round robin for that final player count).
I have not yet done any research into the traditional swiss system algorithms and apologize if they always prioritize the earliest they can call a 1st place victor regardless of what the rest of standings look like or how many planned games remain. If anyone can point me towards documentation on how to study the swiss format decision matrix that would be a much appreciated (level of math complexity is no issue to me).
In this tournament I won both the first matchups securing a guaranteed 1st place for such a low player count. Rather than having tomorrows matchup let the other two players face each other to compete for 2nd vs 3rd, the tournament instantly concluded. Since the tie breaker is the standing of opponent they faced (same person so tied again) and then the elo of that opponent (I had won in the first day so my elo was higher in the second game played) the person who was randomly selected to go second (I believe the lowest elo player in the registration) gets the 2nd place win over the player who went against me first.
This is not the first time I have seen a swiss system end prematurely when 1st place was undefeated and all other places had at least one loss even if several matches remained. There were enough remaining matches for the 1st place to be upset by the 2nd had the matches gone the right ways or at the very least 2nd and 3rd place titles were still up for shuffling among several different players who had a chance for it.
https://en.boardgamearena.com/#!tournament?id=11464
That one for example ended 2 games before the end with a swiss system 7 round with 8 players (I thought it was going to behave exactly like a round robin for that final player count).
I have not yet done any research into the traditional swiss system algorithms and apologize if they always prioritize the earliest they can call a 1st place victor regardless of what the rest of standings look like or how many planned games remain. If anyone can point me towards documentation on how to study the swiss format decision matrix that would be a much appreciated (level of math complexity is no issue to me).