Re: The logic of Swiss system
Posted: 05 April 2024, 22:39
OK, so kind of running a longer series of automated rematches? And tally up a score for that. That's fair enough, I can see the appeal. I've had AFK groups doing similar things, but not with Swiss exactly, but similar ideas. Running indefinitely long series of matches and counting who has won the most the past X weeks and so on.Mathew5000 wrote: ↑03 April 2024, 00:20 Where I disagree with ErikLevin is this: I believe that on BGA Swiss is good in a variety of different cases, not just where you have many players and few rounds. Swiss can be quite good for a set of players who all want to keep playing matches even after they have no chance of winning the tournament. For example, my friends and I play Swiss tournaments of 4-player games like Catan and Living Forest, where there's only 4 of us in the tournament and the number of matches is 10 or even 20. We like playing against each other, game after game. Similarly, if you have a group of 12 people who all want to play 8 games of Catan one after the other, Swiss works fine (as long as people aren't going to be inclined to drop out if they haven't won after a few matches).