Another riddle

[Iron]

Dave -

I do get where you're coming from re. the solution.

The parameters of the puzzle were unclear, so I sought clarification, and this cause you to accuse me of over-complicating things.

When I got down to 13 players, I thought 'Ah, I bet this is puzzle is about finding a clever solution when you have an odd number of players in a round'. But I couldn't find one, so I asked for clarification.

You're entitled to your opinion - and you're also entitled to run a tournament where some players get an arguably unfair advantage due to a bye - but I maintain that I wasn't over-complicating things.

Jeff

[JollyGreen]

Jesus H F*****g Christ

It's not a question of opinion, you are WRONG! There are tournaments all over the world, probably some running now where a player gets a bye, that's how it works in golf match play, tennis, Football etc.

You gave it away when you said "I got to 13 and I thought ah there is .yada yada yada"

Sod it I am not posting the math there is no bloody point you'll probably want to analyse that to death as well!

Over and OUT!!

[convoysur-2]

im laughing my head off reading this ,
marc

[Photon]

Is it maximum of 10 and minimum of 9 matches to find a winner. Of the 312, 200 are already qualify using some criteria leaving 112 to fight out for one of the 56 places that will join 200 giving a total of 256. This is then whittled down to one with winner progressing with each win. So if the eventual winner is one of 112 that played prelim match then he/she would've played 10 matches and if part of 200 then 9 matches.

1 1
2 2
4 3
8 4
16 5
32 6
64 7
128 8
256 9
112/2 = 56 + 200 = 256 10