From nick at maproom.co.uk  Fri Oct  7 12:18:08 2005
From: nick at maproom.co.uk (Nick Wedd)
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 17:18:08 +0100
Subject: [Bska] Congratulations to Bernard Forster!
Message-ID: <svEwbtaA$pRDFA5P@maproom.demon.co.uk>

Congratulations to Bernard Forster on winning last Saturday's synchron 
skat event!  The results are available at
http://www.weddslist.com/skat/results/rs11/results.html

The rating graph has been updated, and is at
http://www.weddslist.com/skat/rating/rating11.gif

There is a map, showing the approximate positions of the homes of people 
registered with the British Skat Association, at
http://www.weddslist.com/skat/map/index.html

Nick
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Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk


From nick at maproom.co.uk  Wed Nov  2 08:44:33 2005
From: nick at maproom.co.uk (Nick Wedd)
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:44:33 +0000
Subject: [Bska] October Rising Sun results
Message-ID: <LY$JmjTBLMaDFA3u@maproom.demon.co.uk>

I have today uploaded to the BSkA web site some pictures of the winners 
of our October event
http://www.weddslist.com/skat/results/rs11/winners.html, and a 
spreadsheet giving all the hands and all the contract on them, 
generously created by Patrick Phair
http://www.weddslist.com/skat/results/rs11/hands.xls

This spreadsheet lists errors made in the scoring.  There were sixteen 
of these, which is not unusual.  Unfortunately, one of them was 
particularly large and serious, and was entirely due to the incompetence 
of the tournament organiser, myself.  When table 3 handed in their 
scoresheet for session three, it clearly showed that Jonathan Norris had 
a raw score of 472, and 450 for nine games won, making 922.  However I 
recorded his total score as 450 instead of 922.  Because of my error, 
Jonathan was deprived of eight match points, and Bernard Forster, 
Patrick Cherlet, and John McLeod each received two more match points 
than they deserved.  If the event had been score correctly, the first 
four places would have gone to Michael Wachowiak, Jonathan Norris, David 
Parlett, and Bernard Forster respectively.

I apologise to all those who attended the event, and particularly to 
Michael and Jonathan, who were deprived of prizes which they deserved.

Nick
-- 
Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk


From john at pagat.com  Fri Nov  4 08:35:00 2005
From: john at pagat.com (John McLeod)
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:35:00 +0000
Subject: [Bska] October Rising Sun results
In-Reply-To: <LY$JmjTBLMaDFA3u@maproom.demon.co.uk>
References: <LY$JmjTBLMaDFA3u@maproom.demon.co.uk>
Message-ID: <r9YSiXVEO2aDFwAL@pagat.demon.co.uk>

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Nick Wedd <nick at maproom.co.uk> wrote:
>This spreadsheet lists errors made in the scoring.  There were sixteen 
>of these, which is not unusual.  Unfortunately, one of them was 
>particularly large and serious, and was entirely due to the 
>incompetence of the tournament organiser, myself.  When table 3 handed 
>in their scoresheet for session three, it clearly showed that Jonathan 
>Norris had a raw score of 472, and 450 for nine games won, making 922. 
>However I recorded his total score as 450 instead of 922.

Although we normally let all errors stand, on the basis that players at 
a table are jointly responsible for scoring correctly, and they 
shouldn't have signed the sheet if they weren't happy with the score on 
it, this situation is rather different.

It's not reasonable to expect the players to check that the director is 
recording the scores correctly, though they can if they want to and some 
of them sometimes do.

Although we can't alter the prize allocation retrospectively, the 
director may feel that he owes certain people a drink or two. Also, I 
think that the rating sheet *should* be revised to correct this one 
mistake. Just adjusting the match points doesn't quite mend things, 
since with correct scoring Jonathan would have had a harder draw in 
round 4, while others might have had a slightly easier draw, but it's 
the best we can reasonably do, I think.

So unless there is any disagreement, I will recalculate the ratings to 
reflect the corrected match points: 8 more for Jonathan Norris and 2 
fewer for Bernard Forster, Patrick Cherlet, and John McLeod.
-- 
John McLeod                      For information on card games visit
john at pagat.com                   http://www.pagat.com/



From nick at maproom.co.uk  Sun Dec  4 05:27:30 2005
From: nick at maproom.co.uk (Nick Wedd)
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:27:30 +0000
Subject: [Bska] 2006 Rising Sun Skat dates confirmed
Message-ID: <bvJFAhpSSskDFAny@maproom.demon.co.uk>

The Rising Sun now has a new manager.  He has been happy to confirm all 
the dates so far planned for our Rising Sun Synchron Skat events, namely
Jan 14, March 4 and May 6, and to have us hold the events in the same 
way.  The only change is, he expects the food to be better.

Nick
-- 
Nick Wedd    nick at maproom.co.uk