nobthehobbit wrote:Just a thought: if there's a tie on VPs at the end of the Day 2 Swiss, the top two play for the title.
If there was a two way tie, I don't see a way (assuming the pairings were done correctly) that this happens - the tied players should have played each other at some point so you should be able to have a H2H winner (unless they True Tied - it's been known to happen).
The problem with Worlds last year is that it was a Three Way tie. I just went back and looked at the results. Had Justin also not finished with 13 points it would be moot and Stefan would have won on head to head. I think any tiebreaker system should attempt to use head-to-head whenever possible, resorting to SoS, Differential, etc. only when two tied players didn't directly play. Put another way, I'm more sympathetic to Ben's argument of unfairness than I was going in, I'm just not sure his proposed solution (going back to brackets) is necessarily the right answer.
Maybe tweak the OP Tiebreaker rules such that any multi-way tie is ranked according to SoS and then drop the lowest SoS (in this case Justin) and review the top two for a H2H and apply if necessary. In that scenario, Stefan would have won on tiebreakers instead of Mike, but it would be the H2H tiebreaker. Again, hard to argue with that one. This is already done if there's a 3 way tie with 2 players tied on SoS, why not make it applicable in all cases?
Food for thought...