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.