by Peter Gustafsson | Apr 25, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
The ardent reader of my series on how the CGCF performs under various conditions will no doubt have had a nagging thought: “But what happens when someone who knows the ins and outs of the CGCF decides to try to game it for their own nefarious purposes? After...
by Peter Gustafsson | Apr 21, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
In recent posts, I have studied the case of 18 fencers in three poules, all of them well ranked and the whole competition run in the Colley-Gustafsson format. In short, the result of that was that the final ranking was nearly perfect, and that a lot of the matches...
by Peter Gustafsson | Apr 11, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
I see that the first entrants have signed up for the Colley-Gustafsson Grand Prix here. I am very happy that you have chosen to be part of something new, where we will try out the new competition format. If you have any questions about the format, the competition, or...
by Peter Gustafsson | Apr 9, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
In the blog post where I described the Colley-Gustafsson competition format, I first described it as it goes for the 5-point matches that are fenced in the beginning, and then the 15-point matches that come after that. In the two first parts of this three-part series...
by Peter Gustafsson | Apr 5, 2018 | Competition formats, Organizational
In the last post, I left off after the fencers had been ranked after the first round of poules and the connecting matches. Most of the fencers got ranked at or near their true ranking, with the exception of the weakest fencer in the strongest poule – fencer F...
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