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organising a two table home tournament ( 23:48:12 SatJun 15 2002 )

Hi there, I lost my Howell booklet and just cannot remember to organize a two-table tournament with friends. Can you help?

Thanks a lot

Diego

JimO

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Re: organising a two table home tournament ( 05:57:32 SunJun 16 2002 )

If you are running a pair game:
Rd Table 1 Table 2
NS EW NS EW
1 4 1 2 3
2 4 2 3 1
3 4 3 1 2
Boards are relayed between tables each round. The movement may be curtailed after any round without board factoring.

If you want to run an individual:
Rd Table 1 Table 2
N E S W N E S W
1 8 6 1 2 5 3 7 4
2 8 7 2 3 6 4 1 5
3 8 1 3 4 7 5 2 6
4 8 2 4 5 1 6 3 7
5 8 3 5 6 2 7 4 1
6 8 4 6 7 3 1 5 2
7 8 5 7 1 4 2 6 3
Again, boards are relayed; the movement may be curtailed at any time.

-JGO

Timmy

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Re: organising a two table home tournament ( 06:09:59 SunJun 16 2002 )

Here's a possible option:

The ACBL calls this Home Style Pairs - also called "rotating teams".

The scoring can be win-loss or victory points.

With two tables there should be three rounds of 7, 8 or 9 boards. Each pair will play with each other pair as teammates and as table opponents once each.

bluejak

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Re: organising a two table home tournament ( 23:11:52 SunJun 16 2002 )

Good answers - but there is one point. If you are not careful, in either the individual or the pair game, you will finish up with people scoring the reverse of each other at the other table. For example, if at table one A beats B by 13 imps then at table one D beats C by 13 imps!

The way to avoid this is at one table only [the one with the stationary pair or player] to "arrow-switch" half the boards. This means that the stationary pair/player plays half the boards as North-South, half as East-West. You will find this a big improvement.

While VPs are acceptable in such a match [win-loss is not much fun at home] I would not bother: play straight imps.

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