Mc Mahon Example

  Difficulty: Intermediate   Keywords: Rules, Tournament

To help you understand how the McMahon System works lets consider a small example. We have 8 players in a tournament where the McMahon bar is at 2d.

Round 0

  • no. players name rank MMS
  • 1 Danny Strongbow 5d 0
  • 2 Daniel Burrly 2d 0
  • 3 Danial Knee 2d 0
  • 4 Cutey Pi 1k -2
  • 5 Kyu McGrew? 2k -3
  • 6 Kyu Dibble 2k -3
  • 7 Kyu Tibbs 2k -3
  • 8 Kyu Bitz 4k -5

Ok so how do they pair up for the first round? Let's consider an example of 4 games with handicaps and results shown.

  • player1 - player2 handicap result
  • Strongbow - Burrly even 1-0
  • Knee - Pi 2 stones 1-0
  • McGrew? - Tibbs even 0-1
  • Dibble - Bitz no komi 1-0

As handicaps are decided by McMahon Score (MMS) the 5d and 2d games is even.

Round 1

  • no. players name rank MMS
  • 1 Danny Strongbow 5d 1
  • 2 Daniel Burrly 4d 0
  • 3 Danial Knee 2d 1
  • 4 Cutey Pi 1k -2
  • 5 Kyu McGrew? 2k -3
  • 6 Kyu Dibble 2k -2
  • 7 Kyu Tibbs 2k -2
  • 8 Kyu Bitz 4k -5

For everyone who won a game their McMahon score increases by one point. I confess I don't know what happens with Jigo, I suspect each player gets half a point.


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