<div dir="ltr">The goal is for the partnerships to have fun playing together moreso than having a perfectly fair event. Most of the top players are better suited to mentor players with some experience rather than the newest players. And some players in group 3 wouldn't consider some players in group 2 to be particularly better than them so they aren't getting the mentorship experience they would like.<div><br></div><div>In some previous events we sat all the 1/3 pairs one direction and the 2/4 pairs the other so you only compared to people in your pool, but this also meant that you never played at the table against people in your peer group, so we were planning to mix that up for the next one.</div><div><br></div><div>And the event will be stratified, so everyone will have the chance to win masterpoints by beating the people in their pool.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 12:43 PM steve estvanik <<a href="mailto:outlook_656865846C5E52A3@outlook.com">outlook_656865846C5E52A3@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg6009563417185085016">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can help with pairing and form creation/ modification</p>
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