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1) Sometimes one pair pulls out, their free space should be allocated to the pair that tried to sign up first, but instead it goes to the pair lucky enough to be in the tournament room at the time
2) Sometimes a TD will decide to increase the limit of a full tourney. Similarly, a waiting is the most equitable way to allocate these seats
3) Roughly 50% of pairs tourneys start off with two sitouts.
i) It is most fair to give this to a pair who were first on a waiting list
ii) The TD will often sub in two complete strangers who have no partnership agreements. Amongst other disadvantages, these two often spent the first two minutes sorting out their system, which is especially bad if they have no common language
4) What happens if a pay tourney is fully booked, but when it starts some of the pairs are not online?
Either i) BBO takes their money anyway, in which case they get angry. or
ii) We do not take their $, but then we lose out on revenue
If we had a waiting list, a simple solution presents itself. + If we feel extra cunning, we take the $ of those who are not online AND the $ of the waiting list players who get in
