[Fluffy]

I will arrange to do a kind of tournament that is not being held on my city. It will be a session starting late, with a dinning break and a second part after.
The main goal is that everyone has played the same boards at dinning break. I have a dealing machine avaible and loads of board-sets to duplicate.
For 4-5 tables (wich is what I expect at first) I plan to make 1 identical set per table, so everyone plays the hands from 1 to 12 at the same time before the dinning break. This should be very easy.
But I supose for 6 tables and up till 10 or 12, there are movements with tables sharing same set or each 3 tables sharing or something. I don't plan to make more than 5 board-sets.
I expect the second part to be shorter than first, something between 8 and 10 boards. I would need something similar for them.


So any help on this matter is wellcome.

[Hanoi5]

Hay que definir bien la cantidad de mesas y el movimiento:

- Con 4 a 6 mesas tal vez quieras jugar un Howell. Tienes sólo 5 juegos de boards así que con la sexta mesa tendrás que hacer lo mismo que,
- Con 7 o más mesas tal vez convenga un Mitchell (puede ser un solo ganador o no) y en ese caso con rondas de 4 o 3 o 2 boards, toca tener una mesa de donde los jugadores (o el Director) sacaran las tablillas de cada ronda. Si hay más de 10 mesas se pone la cosa fea pues sólo tienes 5 copias de cada board. Tal vez toque hacer rondas de 3 tablillas mínimo.

Como juegan las mismas tablillas en cada ronda en todas las mesas es un torneo 'barómetro' así que luego de cada ronda habrán jugado exactamente lo mismo todos.

[barmar]

Courtesy of Google Translate (I assume Fluffy doesn't need it, but English is the official language outside the International forums):

We must clearly define the amount of tables and movement:

- With 4-6 tables you might want to play a Howell. You just 5 games boards so with the sixth table will have to do the same thing,
- With 7 or more tables may be useful to a Mitchell (can be a single winner or not) and then with rounds of 4 or 3 or 2 boards, plays have a table where players (or Director) take out the tablets each round. If more than 10 tables put the ugly thing for just 5 copies of each board. Maybe touch tablets make rounds of 3 min.

As they play the same boards in each round on every table is a tournament 'barometer' so after each round will have played exactly the same thing.

[Fluffy]

But ain't there movements where table 1 plays boards 1-2, and table 2 plays 3-4 and next round table 1 plays 3-4 and table 2 plays 1-2?

[blackshoe]

Sure. Also, where tables X and Y share a board set, X playing the boards in normal increasing order, and Y playing them in decreasing order, from the top. They may actually share the middle boards of an odd number (e.g., 27).

[mycroft]

If you run the full Howell, you do it replacing the boards every set. All tables play 1 the first round, 2 the second, and so on. It will be very slow.

What you'd like is a mitchell leading into a double-howell, maybe; with 8 tables, say, you can play 8 2s before the break (with each twin table sharing a set of boards, or a "boards down a table after you're done" with 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2. Alternatively, if they're the sort for it, "boards on the central table when you're done, pick up the second in the set when it shows up." This works better with 3-board rounds, or an extra set (5 sets for 8 tables, say) though.) and the double-Howells playing 2-board rounds, for 7x2=14 more. Those can even be normal Howells, with only two sets in play (but you'd better have notes on which set on the table cards, unless you're going to play 15-30 in the Mitchell, and 1-14 in the twin Howells).

I wouldn't want to do a play-all in each set; it will quickly be 1-board movements and incredibly slow (i.e. expect 12 boards, 11 rounds to take 2 hours).

[Fluffy]

So far I've come to this:

with 5 table since I have 5 sets just run 5 howell with the break

with 6 tables use only 2 sets, running mitchell having boards 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6. After 3 rounds change boards to 7-12 and repeat. Then run 2* 3 table howell so NS play against NS and EW play against EW after the break.

with 9 tables I think I can divide in 3* 3 table secions and run 3* 6 board sessions. And maybe a final last round to add. I can even use bridgemates here!

With 7 tables it is a 3 table mitchel ( 1 set) combined with soemthing like 4 table howell (4 sets), will have to recombine after every 3 rounds somehow.

With 8 tables it will be 6 table mitchel and 2 table howell every 3 rounds, having to recombine pairs.

[Fluffy]

Maybe I am doing this the wrong way, 4 board rounds could be a lot more apropiate, making things run faster. But it would suck when there is a relay.