To be fair, i have the opposite expirience. Usually stronger players end high in the table, and dont do a 0-2 drop.

To be fair, i have the opposite expirience. Usually stronger players end high in the table, and dont do a 0-2 drop.

A guy that comes in and wins the first round, gets a modified win the second round is going to be playing on a higher end table when he takes the loss in the third round (probably from someone that will make the cut) that knocks him out of contention for making the cut.

Players that have no expectation of making the cut don't usually drop. They showed up to play their 5-6 rounds whether they make the cut or not.

To be fair, i have the opposite expirience. Usually stronger players end high in the table, and dont do a 0-2 drop.

Could you at least pay attention to his example if you intended to try and reply to what he has said? He specifically noted that a Win, Mod Win, Loss would result in a player dropping just as much as Loss Loss would.

Swiss pairings at FFG events will no longer be set according to MoV or SoS but will be random from now on. This is also a push-back against 2 ship lists. It is tougher to win 100-0 with a swarm relative to a 2-ship list. Pairing top MoV players against one another will tend to pit 2-ship lists against one another where 100-0 outcomes are even more likely and pit swarms against swarms where 100-0 is even less likely. End result is a top-16 dominated by 2-ship lists.

Random ain't the optimal pairing mechanism but it is better than MoV. Also prevents regional winners from all facing each other in round 2 of nationals for example.