The draw for the 3rd round and the current standings for the Stellenbosch 3rd Quarter Handicap Tournament are available. On the first board we have Johannes vs Louis, Louis has been promoted 4 ranks since the start of the tournament, while Johannes has been promoted 2. Louis is therefore the favourite in this tournament, also the only one to have won two games thus far. If Johannes were to win the game (against 2 handicap stones too many) we will have a tie between the two to be resolved by SOSOS (sum of opponents’ sum of opponents’ scores), and an opportunity for Wim to snatch first place, if he wins his game, also by SOSOS (i.e. the “luck of the draw” would then play a big role).
Wim, the tournament’s 30k player, defeated Johannes in the previous round, and so entered the running for the top positions (and probably guaranteed himself a promotion, as he had two handicap stones too few according to the current ranks). His next game is against Hanno with the aid of 9H and 30 komi. Jaco and Rory have both been promoted one rank since the tournament’s start, but Jaco lost his first game against Daniel, and an unfortunate miscommunication resulted in a loss for both Rory and Daniel in the second round. This leaves first place out of the grasp of all but the top three.
Pairings are now calculated by a script that firstly minimizes the maximum handicap. If there is more than one option, it minimizes the sum of squared handicaps. (All of this happens within the constraint of as good a swiss pairing as possible – minimizing mismatches in scores).
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