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.