Tourney round: Apto-tude Cup: Round 1

	Zarte Siempre Commenting here, as it won't appear in the "Tournaments you can enter" bit.
	Zarte Siempre Someone's just pointed out that I should've said, these must be ENGLISH formats. No Spanish Omelette etc.
	Kevin Stoba No CSW?
	Zarte Siempre I'm going to say not because I think allowing it would cause a bigger row than not allowing it.
	Innis Carson HOW DARE YOU
	Zarte Siempre glares
	Chris Hare Two questions: 1) By 'whatever 15 round format you like', do you mean any format explicitly described as a "15 Rounder" or any format with 15 rounds (like a Blitz, say)? 2) Are there any restrictions on round length, or is something like Bullet Spoilage permissible?
	Zarte Siempre 1) Something described as a 15-rounder specifically. 2) Formats where a round length is different by design (speedgoat for instance) are absolutely fine to play, but I would request people kept their games to the round length the format was originally designed with. This having been said, if one person wanted a bullet spoilage game, as you suggest, and the other wanted a bullet duckdown game - I'd have no issue with 2 people agreeing to do this as long as both really WERE in agreement.
	Sean D Isn't there a big problem here with the relative value of different formats, especially Spoilage? Best of 3 with a standard 15 rounder as the third game ( where ne necessary) would seem more sensible.
	Jamie M It's Stepdown scored so relative values wouldn't matter, everything would be out of 150. A Stepdown 15 would probably work as a tie break (for equal total scores) though - unless you were thinking Away Points Rule Zarte?
	Zarte Siempre Sean - what Jamie said basically. If someone wins 150-140 in a standard 15, but then loses 30-18 in a Spoilage, Spoilage takes it. In the event of a tie, I was considering going "most combined maxes" wins - unless anyone thinks of anything more suitable.
	Sean D Pfft. Do you expect me to read ALL the rules before charging in with irrelevant points?
	Zarte Siempre Funnily enough...
	Zarte Siempre For those who didn't see the draw, here's the full draw for the preliminary round: Remi Benoit v Scott Gillies Jayne Wisniewski v Dave Nicholson James Laverty v George Pryn Jojo Apollo v Alex Fish Kerry Lowe v James Bailes Adam Curran v Paul Erdunast Anoush Khachik v Graham Harrison Andy Platt v Nadroj Rekrab Dave Noble v Paul Worsley Julia Hayward v Abdirizak Hirsi Stephen Read v James Robinson Harry Whitehouse v Jack Slane Jamie McNeill v Kevin Steede Mark Murray v James Bradley Alan Young v Thomas Cappleman Antoinette Ryan v Sam Hodkin
	Zarte Siempre We have our first result! Congratulations to Paul, who despite dropping the 2nd leg, advances with a score of 240-215 Commiserations Dave
	Zarte Siempre Game 2 of 16 completed! Thomas goes through 215-156
	Zarte Siempre Paul and Adam make it 3 games played. And it's Paul with an impressive performance - 259 points to 104.
	Zarte Siempre 25% mark is reached for the round, with Jayne taking the win 178-134
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	Zarte Siempre 5 out of 16 completed. Jojo knocks out the Fish, 226-199
	Zarte Siempre 6 out of 16. Jamie takes it 225-175
	Zarte Siempre OK - so here's the state of play Remi Benoit v Scott Gillies - Awarded to Scott as Remi's subscription is running out soon and he won't be immediately renewing. Jayne Wisniewski v Dave Nicholson - Jayne wins James Laverty v George Pryn - Unplayed Jojo Apollo v Alex Fish - Jojo wins Kerry Lowe v James Bailes - Unplayed Adam Curran v Paul Erdunast - Paul wins Anoush Khachik v Graham Harrison - Unplayed Andy Platt v Nadroj Rekrab - Unplayed Dave Noble v Paul Worsley - Paul wins Julia Hayward v Abdirizak Hirsi - Unplayed Stephen Read v James Robinson -Unplayed Harry Whitehouse v Jack Slane - Awarded to Jack on the basis that Harry ceases to exist Jamie McNeill v Kevin Steede - Jamie wins Mark Murray v James Bradley - Unplayed Alan Young v Thomas Cappleman - Unplayed Antoinette Ryan v Sam Hodkin - Unplayed Now unless people haven't told me that they've played their games, this leaves 8 fixtures to be played in the next 2 weeks.
	Zarte Siempre Another game down. Kerry wins 209-146
	Zarte Siempre JR through, 231-186

Tourney round: Apto-tude Cup: Round 1

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Notes from the organizer: This is a brand new feature for the Apto-tude model - we've got the league, which has been going successfully for 10 cycles now. Now it's time for the cup.

To start with, I'd like to point out that the cup is ONLY open to those people in the league as of cycle 11. All of you will receive an aptomail about this personally, however it will be presumed that if you're playing in the league, you'd also like to play in the cup, unless you tell me otherwise. I have a feeling that this may require a lot of admin on my part, as I'm not sure whether apterous's tourney system can handle the format, but here goes:

The entire tournament will involve a random draw, from round to round, guaranteeing some interesting fixtures all over the place. Each player will play their opponent in a "home" leg and an "away" leg - to differentiate this tournament from most others, though - versatility will be essential in order to win.

The "home" player will be able to pick whatever 15 round format they like, from standard to spoilage and everything in between. They must set up this 15 rounder with their opponent to stepdown scoring. The 2 matches will be played, i.e. "Player X picks Duckdown" "Player Y picks Unlimited" and the scores from the 2 games will be added together, giving the final result.

Each round will last one cycle, meaning the cup will go on for the majority of a year. If this is successful, a new one will start at the end of the first cup - if it doesn't work, we'll scrap it :) In essence though, it means you'll have an extra 2 matches to play in a 6 week period.

As I don't think that apto-tude can handle something that isn't a "best-of" style tournament - one player will be expected to send me both games from their fixture, and the other player will be asked to confirm that this.

This may need bearing with, as it is very much going to be a trial - but I think this could be a lot of fun :)

For the record, in the likely event that we don't have a square number of players involved, the first round, much like the FA Cup etc. will feature players at the bottom of the ladder - however this is the only protection that the top players will get in this tournament :)

If there are any questions, please leave them as a comment on the page - Whilst I'm happy to respond to aptomails, other people may have the same questions, and it saves me answering them multiple times :)

Ran from: 24 February – 6 April 2014. Format: Stepdown 15. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Fixtures: 16. Completed: 16.

Results and fixtures

Player 1	Player 2	Status
Paul Worsley	Dave Noble	130 – 98
Paul Worsley	Dave Noble	110 – 117
Tom Cappleman	Alan Young	105 – 86
Tom Cappleman	Alan Young	110 – 70
Transude Transude	Adam Finlay	118 – 55
Transude Transude	Adam Finlay	141 – 49
Jayne Wisniewski	Dave Nicholson	98 – 75
Jayne Wisniewski	Dave Nicholson	80 – 59
Jojo Apollo	Alex Fish	128 – 100
Jojo Apollo	Alex Fish	98 – 99
Kevin Steede	Jamie M	67 – 106
Kevin Steede	Jamie M	108 – 119
Kerry Lowe	James Bailes	105 – 67
Kerry Lowe	James Bailes	104 – 79
James Robinson	Stephen R	96 – 79
James Robinson	Stephen R	135 – 107

Key. Green: winner. Red: loser. Grey: tie. (Stripes: provisional, match in progress.)

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Tourney round: Apto-tude Cup: Round 1

Results and fixtures