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      4d   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.

 White     Black    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. In this case a Draw, Jigo is awarded 1 point.


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