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In the NOVA Narrative this year and the LibertyHammer narrative event I'm trying to get off the ground, I'm thinking about applying a specific mechanism to mitigate that: Players fill out a quick questionnaire to check in, and organizers sum up the “Yes” responses and seed or constrain the first round pairings by sorting on those counts.

I would be curious to hear what people think about that approach, and other suggestions or past experiences. I have a much longer discussion about the problem and the proposed approach here:

http://www.rocketshipgames.com/blogs/tjkopena/2016/03/first-round-gaming-tournament-seeding/

Thx!

UPDATE: There is also a bit of a good discussion about this happening on Reddit.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/685736/8557083.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/685736/8557083.page GMT
To address the "fast/easy" concern in your attached post, you could use a few pretty simple functions in MS Excel to compare your roster with the list off Frontline's website, then sort and rank them for an initial swiss pairing.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/685736/8563585.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/685736/8563585.page GMT