On Fri May 03 13:37, Jorge Monteiro wrote:
> My main purpose is to avoid those last round IDs between the 2 X-0 players because…
>
> 1) small FNM swiss tournaments easily get the single-elimination feel since a player that loses on 1st or 2nd round knows they're out of the possibility of getting at least 2nd place since the X-0 players will ID on the last round.
>
> 2) more splits/IDs imply bigger chance of bribery (unadverted or not) happens.
>
> With those solutions, those last round IDs will still happen, unless I'm interpreting wrong.

The key point is that ‘2nd place’ isn't a thing which changes the prizes you
get, all the 3-1s get the same, so it doesn't matter if you lose the last round
or the first round. The people who ID get the same total prize as they would
have done if they played. Having just been to an FNM where a player left quite
upset with only 2 boosters after being dropped to 5th on breakers on 3-1 (no
draws), I'm more and more of a fan of prizes on result, not standing.

The only awkward thing here is the FNM foils, of which there are a limited
supply.

Matt