[demps45]

I have often wondered if the "random" pairings were actually "random" too. We attended the Greater Toronto Regional this past week, and after the pairings were distributed, some teams complained that the pairings were not fair, so the officials ran the program again and came out with pairings that were satisfactory to those complaining. the officials said they had used the wrong algorithm for the number of teams attending the event. That tells me that mistakes do happen. I am not questioning the integrity of any of the officials, only the method used for pairings. As luck would have it, we had much better pairngs "before" the the pairings were rerun. Also, the "better" teams ended up with better pairings "after" the program rerun. Go figure!!