TieBreaks.

[Allen]

@mkoganov

For the benifit of everybody who replied or followed this thread, I have an update.

TD from the event replied back to me that there was an error in results in the award ceremony and Leo did in fact placed fifth on tie-breaks. TD will have to order another trophy and asked whether I will be willing to come and pick it up, to which I gladly agreed.

Sometimes, in a rush, stuff happens. I applaud both of you for being reasonable in your resolution.

I try to check stuff like that very very carefully, but when I do make a mistake, and I have, I appreciate (as a TD) a person who doesn’t go all nuts on me.

[wintdoan]

@mkoganov

Now, my question did not arise just from curiosity, my son just played in the State event where he scored
3.5 /5. Another child, who my son drew in the last round also scored 3.5 /5. Both kids shared 5-6 places, but tiebreak put one of them on the fifth and the other on sixth and I am trying to understand the rational.

I have results sheet in front me and it looks like this:
Points TBrk1 TBrk2 TBrk3 TBrk4
5. Player 1 3.5 11.5 13.5 11.5 42.5
6. Player 2 3.5 13.0 15.0 10.5 46.5

It is worth to mention that the pairing software is Windows TD version 4.11c 2008.

I would greatly appreciate if someone takes time to de-cypher those numbers for me.

Those look like the standard 4 tie breaks, but the listing isn’t in the order of standings. There’s a separate operation in WinTD which computes and prints standings in tie break order with ties all the way through the tie breakers tagged with things like

5 …
&6 …

[jwiewel]

@wintdoan

@mkoganov

Now, my question did not arise just from curiosity, my son just played in the State event where he scored
3.5 /5. Another child, who my son drew in the last round also scored 3.5 /5. Both kids shared 5-6 places, but tiebreak put one of them on the fifth and the other on sixth and I am trying to understand the rational.

I have results sheet in front me and it looks like this:
Points TBrk1 TBrk2 TBrk3 TBrk4
5. Player 1 3.5 11.5 13.5 11.5 42.5
6. Player 2 3.5 13.0 15.0 10.5 46.5

It is worth to mention that the pairing software is Windows TD version 4.11c 2008.

I would greatly appreciate if someone takes time to de-cypher those numbers for me.

Those look like the standard 4 tie breaks, but the listing isn’t in the order of standings. There’s a separate operation in WinTD which computes and prints standings in tie break order with ties all the way through the tie breakers tagged with things like

5 …
&6 …

If you do a player list instead of a prize list then you can add tie-breaks but not sort by them (some organizers put up the penultimate cross-table as a player list with tie-breaks and sorted by score and rating - useful if you want a cross-table with the tie-breaks and without the pairing number). That may have been how an erroneously sorted list could accidentally get to the person doing the awards.