The crosstable for this event is below: The winner of the main event was Steven Liu. The handicap winner was Mick Waters. Second and third overall were Steffen Bayani and Gordon Struk.
The Rules
Apart from the obvious ones, like 30 minutes for all your moves or you lose, our special rules are:
* This is a tournament where you don't have to play every week,
so inter-club team members can still play.
* The winner is determined by strike rate out of players who
have played at least 16 games out of a possible 24.
* There will also be a handicap prize. This goes to the highest
strike rate by a player Under 1500 or unrated who has played
at least 16 games.
* Once you have played 16 games your strike rate cannot go down - only up.
* Strike rate is percentage of won games converted to a decimal.
So 3 out of 4 = 75% = 0.75 strike rate.
Question : Winners play winners? or Equal Strike rates play Equal strike rates?
Answer: The draw is done as much as possible on strike rate.
So someone with 1 out of 1 = strike rate 100 may play someone with 4 out of 4 e.g. The draw is worked out by a program developed by NSWCA Ratings Officer Steve Carratt called "wchess".
