March 19th, 2004, 05:32 PM
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Re: Ratings Bash 2?
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Originally posted by geoschmo:
RE: Swiss paring. Wouldn't that require that all players going in have some sort of rating? DO we just stick the unrated players in at 1000 and seed them somewhere in the middle? Or do we seed them at the bottom, below the ranked, but sub 1000 players? Or do we not allow unranked players? Avoinding that mess was what I was going for with the random pool idea for the first phase.
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Unrated players join tournements all the time in chess (they get a provisional rating which we have already assigned new players). Unranked players--in our situation, those having no games completed yet listed at 1,000--are put at the bottom in alpha order.
Reading about it at the FIDE site can make it look confusing. One aspect of it (chess) we wouldn't need to worry about (that chess tourneys DO need to worry about) is color assignment... 
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