Round Robins

[Chris and Elisabeth Zakes]

At 01:16 PM 4/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 12:46 PM 4/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>Could someone please explain to me the rules for a round robin final in
>>Crown Tourney?  I was under the impression that each fighter would get two
>>fights with each of the others, making it fair and equitable to all the
>>fighters who had fought very hard to get to the finals.  
>>
>>Geoffrey Sparhauk, Disgruntled Ansteorran Subject.
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>The normal format for Crown is single elim best two out of three.  If you
>come down to three fighters it is sometime fought as a round robin.  HRM
>told us before the list that he would use the round robin format if it came
>down to three fighters.  He decided that each fighter would get one fight
>best two out of three in the round robin.  The loser of the first fight
>would face the third fighter.  The winner of that fight would face the
>winner of the first fight.  This ment that if it fell just right they could
>have to start all over and do it again.  Since the loser of the first fight
>also lost the second fight, he was eleminated from the round robin and the
>other two fighters with one win apeace fought a normal crown fight best two
>out of three.
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>In Service to the Dream
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>Sir Burke Kyriell MacDonald
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>mka. Burke McCrory
>burkemc at ionet.net
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Burke, you hit the peg squarely on the head. Couldn't have put it better
myself.

Aethelyan, List Mistress