Sorry I made this a few days ago and hadn't realized I didn't actually post it!
As I previously indicated : Round 3 is now over and the standings are as follows:
That's quite a few games left to play - I'm hoping I didn't miss anything.
We're going to have to determine the Winner, which is no easy task considering the games left to play.
Here's a Round up, thus far:
Looking at the final round, it's pretty clear no one could get hold of StartPlayer. So I think it is safe to assume he's out of the tournament. It's a shame because his first round looked quite good. I've decided to relegate him from the tournament.
It makes it hard to compare scores between the remaining 7 players. Taking part in a Tournament, takes a considerable amount of effort, and it's important to see which members were organizing games and coaxing their playing partners.
It's pretty clear that Adrornalin and What If went to extra ordinary efforts to play their games and managed to play each other 3 times during the tournament! They're also very closely matched - both scoring 15 and 13 Cumulative Group Points (CGPs) respectively; though using (Positive Points Difference) PPD Adrornalin manages to win outright.
I'm not sure that CGP is a good way to compare, you could easily gain 6 GPs in the first round, but I think there's been plenty of opportunity to organize those games.
The following table compares CGPs:
I'm going to make a tough executive decision... I'm going to withdraw all players who played less than 2 games this round, from the final ranking (BUT NOT FROM THE TOURNAMENT)!
1st: Adrornalin
2nd: What If?
3rd: JoeSesquipedalian
4th: Clownfeet
----Players with less than 2 games:
5th Skane
6th Daromar
7th Daliles
--- Relegated Players:
8th Start Player
It was a tough decision to make - I'm sorry it's taken so long. I hope you can understand all the decisions I've had to make, but playing all your games is very important in a contest!
That does mean I've had to move Skane down, into 5th place - I think if you managed to win another game you could have justified winning the tournament!
But don't worry everyone gets a prize for taking part - and your ELO scores will only take the games you played into effect - so no harm there...right..maybe..I'm not sure!
In the next couple of days, I'll have a good idea of what goodies I'll have to share with all of the contestants for taking part and completing the tournament