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Re: Open Challenge to All TB Pente Masters -- Financial Incentives
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Jul 10, 2026, 10:55 PM
There is the following language in the rules section for double elimination tournaments:
"If however, 2 players are assigned a match but have already played earlier in the tournament, Pente.org will try to find another pairing that haven't played yet, but that is still close to the system of pairing by seeds."
No such language is found in the round robin rules, but we do have this clause:
"Now the layers of the sections will be shuffled as well. In the above example, layer 1 consists of seeds 1 to 10, layer 2 of seeds 11 to 20, and so on. The players within each layer are shuffled randomly before being assigned to a section. No 2 players from the same layer will end up in the same section for that round."
It is unclear whether this random process has a rule that excludes repeat placement. Looking at the last master's tournament, my guess is no. Perhaps rainwolf can elucidate.
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
