Club query? Matchplay championship draws

Kingdom

Hi,
Not sure if this is posted in the right area but if anyone can offer an opinion it would be appreciated.

In my club we have graded matchplay draws. These also have qualifying rounds. A qualifying draw was made with some prelims before two qualifying rounds. A player was entered into the top grade (he should have been in the second grade), and the draw was made (not the fault of the player). The problem was idenitified and the solution found was to remove him from the incorrect grade (without a re-draw) and to re-draw the second grade.

The player he was due to play in the first draw got a bye into the first qualifying round proper.

I would have thought the proper thing to do would have been to completely re-draw both grades. Would that have been the correct procedure?

GreeBo

Kingdom wrote: »

Hi,
Not sure if this is posted in the right area but if anyone can offer an opinion it would be appreciated.

In my club we have graded matchplay draws. These also have qualifying rounds. A qualifying draw was made with some prelims before two qualifying rounds. A player was entered into the top grade (he should have been in the second grade), and the draw was made (not the fault of the player). The problem was idenitified and the solution found was to remove him from the incorrect grade (without a re-draw) and to re-draw the second grade.

The player he was due to play in the first draw got a bye into the first qualifying round proper.

I would have thought the proper thing to do would have been to completely re-draw both grades. Would that have been the correct procedure?

Up to the competitions committee I guess, so that could mean anything.
I've seen incidents where there leading qualifiers were incorrectly dropped from the draw, when it was brought to the committees attention they decided the fairest way was to make these leading qualifiers play a qualifying match against the people who shouldnt have made it in at all. The mind boggles sometimes.

matt-dublin

the committee could have argued that the top grade player would have beaten the bottom grade player and by default let him through.

also because the top grade would now have an uneven pairing that someone would have to go through anyway.