Dave,
We could not find a happy medium when generating the match schedules. When we tried to set a lower minimum match spacing, we sometimes ended up with teams competing in a match while needing to be queued up for another match.
It is possible that we just didn't go through enough iterations to ensure that we didn't have duplication. It also didn't help that we had to generate the match schedule three times because of teams being initially on the list, then not showing up, then finally showing up during opening ceremony. We didn't have enough time to go through the list and check for duplicate matchups. Some of those issues may have contributed to those other events having similar duplicate matchups.
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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday
You need to bring this issue up with the people running the events you attended. The organizers of the event control the amount of duplication seen by teams when they generate the schedule by choosing the "minimum match spacing" (which is the minimum number of matches a team has in between matches they are scheduled to play in). When this number is set too high, duplication will occur (due to basic math constraints). This is documented in the manual.
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