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#1 User is offline   gentgiant 

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Posted 2021-November-19, 01:53

I set my most recent tournament (as vebu207596)for 18 boards in 9x2 board rounds. Tourney #85589.

Used the string +howell+ +Rounds9+ in description.

Had 7 full tables (14 pairs) and was somehat surprised to find we were playing 13x1 board rounds and not the 9x2.

Was the upper case R the problem? If not then why default to a full Howell of only 13 boards?
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Posted 2021-November-19, 13:48

Unless someone with more experience says otherwise, I imagine you guess right: at least some of these strings are case sensitive, and if you had said "+rounds9+" I would expect it to work.
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Posted 2021-November-27, 09:31

View Postpescetom, on 2021-November-19, 13:48, said:

Unless someone with more experience says otherwise, I imagine you guess right: at least some of these strings are case sensitive, and if you had said "+rounds9+" I would expect it to work.

We fixed this sometime last year. They're all case-insensitive now.

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Posted 2024-April-19, 00:56

If you have 7 full tables, 14 pairs, each will have to play against 13 other pairs, so that's why 13x1.
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Posted 2024-April-19, 10:10

But as discussed in the other thread, the +rounds9+ overrides "full Howell". Except that (at the time, it doesn't now) +Rounds9+ wasn't the same as +rounds9+ and was ignored.
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