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gnasher, on Apr 4 2009, 10:38 AM, said:
Gerben42, on Apr 3 2009, 01:16 PM, said:
A popular tournament approach around here is to play a qualification with carryover to the A- and B-final. When it is clear that you are "close" to qualifying, which can be determined rather well with Bridgemates, it may be best for you to not qualify and then try to win the B-section rather than qualify last for the A-final. This is also a classical dumping situation.
I'm not saying this doesn't happen, but I don't understand why anyone would do that. If they'd rather win a weak event than play in a strong event, why don't they just find a weaker event in the first place, instead of polluting the scores in a competition they apparently don't want to play in at all?
Because of the carry-forward.
When they entered, they were hoping to do well in the A-final.
Now, because of the large carry-forward, they know they are virtually without hope of winning the A final but have a good chance of doing well in the B final.
We were in this position in the European Open pairs in Tenerife. We eventually qualified for the A final via the repechage in the last qualifying place. After the first day of the A final we were in first place before the carryforward applied, but that then stuck us down to something like 10th.
(We then yielded on the second day of the final but that's neither here nor there to the point of this story.)