Re: Seat assignments at tournaments


David Stevenson wrote:
Travis Crump wrote
LurfysMa wrote:

2. In larger events where a Mitchell movement is used, are the pairs
allowed to sit wherever they like for the first round or they assigned
randomly?

Neither. The different grades of players should be evenly distributed
throughout the field. It only takes playing in a club game where people
sit 'randomly' and all the good pairs are NS to realize that
random/self-selected seating is the path to madness.

Why? What difference does it make? It may surprise you - and the
rest of the crazy world who seem ot believe in seeding - but the way to
win an event, whether major international pairs or club duplicate, is to
play better than everyone else.

2a. After the first round, must the EW teams move so that east is
always east and west always west, or can they switch around?

No they shouldn't switch. The reason for this is that on average the
partner in seats 1/2 is more likely to be declarer, especially in
notrump so by judiciously switching the direction you are sitting you
can try to get one partner to declare more often. Which isn't a
desirable situation.

That is from fantasyland!!!!! If East and West are likely to play
half the hands each, and East and West change directions every round,
then they are likely to [wait for it ...] play half the hands each!

Yes, but what people do (if they aren't forbidden) is to switch
directions selectively.
I always thought this is why in EBL mixed events the women have to sit
South/West: there's then an easy top-level check that they aren't
switching round to get the man in 1st/2nd seat as often as possible.


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Marvin French wrote

The rule now at NABC+ events is that anyone can request to be seeded
if they wish, so the number of seeds could rise dramatically. I don't
know where they put those people.

The last but one NABC I played in we sat initially against a charming
pair of men, who were, of course not seeded. It was imp pairs, and the
snaffled a vulnerable game on a combined 21 count which we let through.

Seeded? Why should they be seeded? After all, they had only won the
Bermuda Bowl once.


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