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Trevor Potts Games are now live for our test subjects.
Trevor vs Dave
Fiona vs Colin

We each have 6x9R games to play against Prune. Your aim is to reach 491 cumulative points in this round.

Once you have played your 6 games I will add one 9R game at a time until either you reach 491 or your opponent beats you to the checkout. If your cumulative score goves over 491, you have bust and your score reverts to where it was up to before you exceeded 491.

Once you reach 491 I will add Conundrum games in the doubles round for you to attempt checkout.

I've attempted to set up a mostly automated Google Sheets to track and add scores: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0pzZOKWUuYDRuvXNS_I_N8TCn3HmYeOjDwZKyP-WdU/edit?usp=sharing

Good luck all and thanks for volunteering to test the tourney!

Trevor Potts oh shit I should specify, although it's unlikely to be relevant until 7th games are added:

If you are able to get to 491 before the conundrum in one of your 9R, you can check out on the conundrum on that game! So no need to use the doubles round if that's the case. That is just there to avoid people having to waste 9Rs to get to the con.

So if you're on a cumulative total of 491 during a 9R, please go for the conundrum!

Trevor Potts The victor is determined by the following criteria:

1 - Fewest 'darts' (games) before checking out wins
2 - If this is a tie, fewest in-game rounds to reach 491 wins.
3 - if still tied, fastest 'checkout' (final con solve)
4 - if still tied, fastest conundrum solve across the match
5 - if still tied, fastest aggregate conundrum solve time across the match (with unsolved cons counting as 30.0s)
6 - if still tied, most maxes scored across the match wins.
7 - if still tied, a 'nearest bull' tie-break match (H2H Conundrum x5) will be arranged to decide he match,

Trevor Potts Result in Game A: Dave beats Trevor. Both players hit 501 in 8 darts (games), but Dave managed to reach 491 in the fewest rounds (69 to Trevor's 72). Dave wins on criterion 2.

Dave Kempshall Something tells me there may have been a bit of testing / friendly match-fixing going on there :)

Trevor Potts It may look like that but nope. I very deliberately left myself 7 points to get on the last numbers in dart 7. And then got intrigued by a tricky round and forgot I wasn't meant to actually solve it 🤦 bust! Good luck in the final.

Trevor Potts Result in Game B: Fiona beats Colin. Again both players hit 501 in 8 darts but Fiona reached 491 in 64 rounds to Colin's 70. Fiona wins on criterion 2.

Your final will be Fiona vs Dave. Same rules as before. Good luck both!

Trevor Potts Apologies for the incorrect notes on your game Fiona!

Dave Kempshall Hey Trevor - Mr Brockwell just suggested in chat that maybe Master format could work quite well for this (LNC x 5). It gives increased conundrum double-out opportunities per game and also makes getting onto 491 (onto the double) a bit more of a challenge. Worth thinking about.

Fiona T Very close - the battle for "no glory" is on :D

Trevor Potts Thanks for the suggestion Dave! I'll do some testing. From what I've seen so far my priority with any format changes would be to increase the variability of number of darts required to reach 491.

I had considered mocktorun and do a round count but that would involve a lot of dumped rounds and be a ballache for me to count.

Dave Kempshall Yes, variability I think would increase with Masters I think as there'd be a chance to reach 491 and check out every three rounds.

Fiona T poop