Yesterday was the 20250802 AACC Swiss, which happened to also be an ACF Grand Prix event! While a smaller event, with only 10 players, we sure had fun! We had one player from Oregon, four players from Anchorage, and 5 players from the Fairbanks/North Pole area, which is quite an accomplishment!

Here are the final standings from the event:

Congratulations to Mr. Taylor on a 'clean sweep', winning four of four rounds!

We hope to see them, and you, at future events!

The results from our ACF sanctioned Grand Prix are in!

We had 11 players for the tournament last Saturday, May 17th, and it was a fun atmosphere. Lots of good play, a couple of upsets, and even a new unrated player!

Congratulations to Landon Burton Hoard for a clean sweep of the competition!

There was a question at the end about tie breaks and I had a hard time explaining the plus/minus scores. After brushing up on it at home, I hope that we can provide better answers in future tournaments, but the point in question was how does Modified Median work?

If the players who tie have even scores (meaning even number of wins and loses for themselves, not against each other) - in this case that would be 2 wins, 2 losses, being even - then the high and low score of their opponents are discarded.

For example, the fourth place tie of the 5 players. They will take their opponents scores, throw out the top score, and the bottom score, and add the other scores together, in this case two scores, because of only four rounds.

Now, if the players are tied with a plus score, such as the two players tied for 2nd place, being a score higher than 2.0, in this case +1 at 3.0, 3 wins and 1 loss, or two wins and two draws, then only the lowest score of their opponent is thrown out - in this case adding three of their opponents scores together.

But if the player has a minus score, meaning less wins than losses, like players 9 and 10, being less than the even score of 2.0, then instead, only the highest opponent score is removed.

To further add to the tie breaks confusion, if there are 9 or more rounds, then the number of removed scores is doubled. Also, any unplayed games count as 1/2 point for the purpose of calculating someone else's tie, but for calculating their own tie, and unplayed game gets an adjusted score of 0.

Hopefully that's not too confusing, and that this explanation is helpful!

The tournament results are in for our latest event, the 20250322 AACC Swiss!

20250322 AACC Rated Swiss: Open
# Name             USCF ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Score
1 Colton Evans     15044644 1437  W10w W3b  W6w  D2b  3.5
2 Weston Howard    31397231 1516  H--  W4w  W5b  D1w  3.0
3 John Huling      31924786 1287  W7b  L1w  W11b W6b  3.0
4 Jeremiah Youmans 31847556 1024  W12w L2b  D8b  W10w 2.5
5 Michael Olsta    32104412 927   H--  W10b L2w  W8w  2.5
6 Josh Meyers      31373531 1341  W11b W8w  L1b  L3w  2.0
7 Benjamin Matz    31474875 374   L3w  L9b  W12w W11w 2.0
8 Samuel Craymer   31979660 1309  W9w  L6b  D4w  L5b  1.5
9 Zion Craymer     31830241 537   L8b  W7w  L10b D12w 1.5
10 Madeline Howard 31830192 765   L1b  L5w  W9w  L4b  1.0
11 Jonathan Kugler 31400562 596   L6w  W12b L3w  L7b  1.0
12 Genesis Craymer 31830239 348   L4b  L11w L7b  D9b  0.5

What a fun event and a great crowd! Congratulations to Colton Evans for taking first place in the tournament!