gordontd, on 2016-October-11, 02:10, said:
Can you explain what the carryover scores were based on?
Hey Gordon,
For carryover:
1) For people who got knocked out in the groups: We give 50% of VPs they collected.
2) People who got knocked out in the R16: After ordering the guys above (only 5 of them registered), we put these guys somewhere between the 3rd and 4th place with some weighted average - so assuming a fluid field, it is 33.33th percentile (from lowest to highest VP).
The goal of the consolation is mainly fun, and original plan was to include R16 losers in the later stages of a longer Swiss - however, the re-registration (for consolation) period took a while and the number was lower than our expectation. I believe that it would be unfair to give R16 losers 50% of VPs they collected in the group stage, because they actually played in the KO Stage. 33.33th percentile was kind of random, but it will be the same for QF losers if the tournament is 5-rounds. If only 4 rounds, I think we may need to put them to 50th percentile to give them a shot. (Note: I will only play if the total number is odd to even it up, so I don't have any personal ambition or something doing this:) )