Rules: 5. Competition system: (a) Swiss system with 9 rounds (b) After 9 rounds top 16 players play play-offs. Each round of the play-offs, except of course for the last round, players (in order of places in the Swiss ranking) can choose his/her opponent from the players qualified for the play-offs. All other players continue playing the Swiss tournament. Only in the play-offs, following a draw, a G-L tiebreak will be played with rate 3’+2” Fischer. Losers of the play offs re-enter the next round of the Swiss tournament with the score obtained in the regular play-off game (if 0 in regular game: then with 0 back into Swiss, if 1 in regular game and 0 in tiebreak, with 1 back into Swiss).FMJD – WCBlitz 2014 page 2(3) (c) Round 10. 16 players play in play-off, others play round 10 of Swiss (d) Round 11. 8 players play in play-off, others (including 8 losers in play-offs from round 10) play round 11 in Swiss (e) Round 12 4 players play in play-off (semi-finals), others (including 4 play-off losers from round 11) play round 12 in Swiss (f) Round 13 (last) Winners from semi-finals play the final match. Losers from semi-finals and all others play last round of Swiss tournament for the places 3 – till last Piet Bouma: To 'manage' that the finalists in Toernooibase/Tournament finished first and second, a 'virtual' result 3-3 is given to the final Baliakin - Georgiev (1-1*). Gewijzigd op 20-12-2014. |