After the other 9 players (who are all seeded higher) are placed into sections 1-3, lojza will be put into one of the sections to make it 4-3-3. Edit: I think he will be put in owen's section, as he is the lowest top seed.
If Round 3 has 6 contestants, it should be one super-section. If it has 7-8, it will be two sections with the same rules.
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Re: Open Challenge to All TB Pente Masters -- Financial Incentives
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Jul 2, 2026, 6:00 PM
Lojza is a young Czech gomoku, renju and Pente player who I encouraged to participate in the tournament Most of his Pente games are live swap2 games at vint.ee - https://www.vint.ee/en-gb/user/100858
Retired from rated TB Pente, but still playing live and TB variants
Re: Open Challenge to All TB Pente Masters -- Financial Incentives
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Jul 7, 2026, 2:34 AM
> After the other 9 players (who are all seeded higher) are placed into sections 1-3, lojza will be put into one of the sections to make it 4-3-3. Edit: I think he will be put in owen's section, as he is the lowest top seed.
Just a side note.
Well, this tournament system is new to me and it looks a bit wierd.
Of course, your chances to advance to the next round is significantly higher when you play in a group of 3 instead of group of 4.
So I'd expect that since Rd. 2 only groups of the same size are being formed. And if the size of your group depends heavily on your rating, it sounds unfair. The group forming should depend on places achieved in the group of the previous round(s), not on rating, IMO. If it's possible that Rd.2 group is "zoeyk + madmike + homebrew" consisting only prev. round group winners, well, the system looks a bit flawed to me. The idea of any tournament system is to prevent strongest players encounter until the very end; in Rd. 1, this goal is being achieved by seeding procedure, and afterwards the main distinctive thing should be the current tournament results, not rating or alphabet or phase of the Moon.
Re: Open Challenge to All TB Pente Masters -- Financial Incentives
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Jul 7, 2026, 3:05 AM
yea well, in multiple other recent or ongoing tourneys here that are double-elim, i have faced the same opponent two rounds in a row, even when multiple players are still left in the tourney. Just things we gotta live with I suppose
