Funny rule

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I see a rule that is weird. If you are on bye you get a point.
It may have have some reason.
But I just noticed this occurring. A player with one real win got ahead of two players with two wins.
He got two byes, and so he got 3 points. Really funny. I understand, with a bye you get robbed of the chance of a point. Maybe should be half a point.


take a look and see…

Maybe this was discussed before, but at a quick glance could not see it. Is not big deal though. Just reported it to be sure that it is known

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Swiss is the worst tournament system, hands down.

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I read in wiki that any player should not get more than 1 bye. And that sounds fair.

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Even though they get a full point for byes, they don’t get any tie breaker points since they didn’t play anyone, so it shouldn’t be too much of an advantage

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@BHydden, I have no idea how it is on ties, and what I mentioned is that the point counts even before it gets to tie. Please read again my message an eventually take a look at tournament quoted. So, a player has one real win, and is ahead of two players with two real wins. Really really weird.

@andysif , yes those two byes added made the impossible possible. With a single bye, I suppose that you can only make a tie with players with a win more, but then at tie the point is irrelevant and you get the last under the others.

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A bye is 1/2 point in big, open chess tournaments, like Isle of Man. For TB purposes, I think it counts as “half a point against a player of your rating”. Don’t see why it should be different, here…

Also, my experience with running a Swiss IRL was that it made the most sense to give the bye to the last place player that hadn’t had a bye yet. After a round or two, it basically meant that the byes didn’t affect who won the tournament. Not sure how it works here, since I’ve only done one tourney…

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“bye” is kinda like “a win by default” so it counts as 1 point, same as winning against an opponent.

I see that greenhunter got 2 byes and 1 win, total of 3 points. The only thing i find weird is that same person got 2 byes, normally TD’s do their best to avoid same player getting mroe than just one bye during a tournament, but sadly this isn’t the case on OGS.

There has been other tournaments like this, where one player has gotten more than 1 byes. I hope someday OGS would limit this somehow.

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I think (though not certain) that the server assigns these things automatically so maybe we should tag @anoek at this point?

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yes these are sitewide tournaments, automated I think. On monitored ones the organizer has the option to take or give points for correction.

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