I will be organising an elimination rengo tournament following this formula:
Sign-ups here on this thread.
19x19, Chinese rules, no handicap.
There is exactly one game per round. All non-eliminated players are playing in the same game.
Before each game starts, the players are randomly divided into two teams. If the number of players is odd, then one team will have one more player.
When a game ends, all players in the losing team are eliminated. All players in the winning team advance to the next round.
Rengo settings: not casual.
Time-settings: Correspondence, Fisher, 3 days + increment 1 day per move, maximum 3 days.
Tournament start: January 2nd
Number of rounds: expected to be between 3 and 6 depending on the number of players.
As long as I’m a player, I will be creating the games and posting the link in this thread. Since this is an elimination tournament, one of the non-eliminated players might have to pick up this responsibility at some point.
Registration starts now. Registration ends when the corks pop on the champagne bottles on new year’s eve.
Register by posting on this thread or editing @jlt 's post below.
Also, I’m very skeptical of strict rengo for more than ~4 per team. Has that ever worked? Maybe it could be casual until we get to 4 players, plus eliminate any individual who times out.
I wanted no division of teams during the round. Once you’ve been assigned to a team for a round, you will either win this round with your whole team, or lose this round with your whole team. It’s not possible to win the round while some of your teammates lose on time.
Note that the choice of time-setting means time is somewhat shared between the team. You are guaranteed to have at least 24h to make your move, but whether you have only 24h, or up to 72h, depends on your teammates.
Finally, if a team times out, then the tournament will be over sooner, so the disappointment is short-lived.
Bizarrely, I added the players to the teams in that order, and the order was respected for Black, but the players were somewhat reordered arbitrarily by OGS for White.
Summary
import random
secret = 'Réforme des retraites : « Personne ne devra travailler 47 ou 48 ans », annonce Elisabeth Borne' # add a secret sentence here
players = 'ArsenLapin1 KoBa jlt Sofiam Jon_Ko Feijoa mafidufa Horn_J Glunkolin jf.baraton DiscoElysium fuseki3'.split()
random.seed(secret)
random.shuffle(players)
white = players[:len(players) // 2]
black = players[len(players) // 2:]
print('White: ', white)
print('Black: ', black)
# White: ['Glunkolin', 'ArsenLapin1', 'fuseki3', 'jf.baraton', 'Feijoa', 'mafidufa']
# Black: ['DiscoElysium', 'Jon_Ko', 'KoBa', 'Sofiam', 'jlt', 'Horn_J']
