Discussion of the format and rules for the upcoming Third Tournament of Elements.

Not a great idea – I think it’s better to play a Swiss tournament with 5 rounds. I’m afraid we won’t be able to handle a round-robin tournament. We could play best of 3 between players – one game with a reduced set of templates, one with a full set (or both games by mutual agreement), and decide the format of the third game by a coin toss.

I’m not against it: a compromise and an unconventional tournament scheme…
We randomly draw up a list, and for the first round, we form pairs 1-7, 2-8, 3-9, etc. Then, as usual, we create pairs based on the equality of points scored by players in the previous round.
From the 2nd round, we can do it like this:
- 1st option: Swiss system with the application of the Buchholz coefficient,
- 2nd option: full double-elimination system.