Re: SwissSys - Difficult to Use?
The program itself is not very intuitive. However the more you use it, the easier it gets as you become accustomed to its quirks.
I tried to use the Swiss tool to manually submit a tournament once, I didn't like it much myself.
It took a bit of time to figure out how to do the round robin correctly, but I seem to have overcome that obsticle and now understand how it works.
After learning all of this, it is easy to submit CFC rating reports, and the FIDE rating reports work as well, saving TONS of time for myself and/or the CFC.
All of that being said, it sucks when it comes to doing pairings. You have to constantly check to make sure it isn't making major pairing mistakes. We have found many. I am also finding other quirks as time goes by, but I have not contacted Thad Suits to let him know them yet. One day I will get around to this.
I would not have selected SwissSys myself if I was working at the CFC when it was selected as the official CFC pairing/reporting program. There are several other programs that work much better IMO.
Originally posted by Kerry Liles
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I tried to use the Swiss tool to manually submit a tournament once, I didn't like it much myself.
It took a bit of time to figure out how to do the round robin correctly, but I seem to have overcome that obsticle and now understand how it works.
After learning all of this, it is easy to submit CFC rating reports, and the FIDE rating reports work as well, saving TONS of time for myself and/or the CFC.
All of that being said, it sucks when it comes to doing pairings. You have to constantly check to make sure it isn't making major pairing mistakes. We have found many. I am also finding other quirks as time goes by, but I have not contacted Thad Suits to let him know them yet. One day I will get around to this.
I would not have selected SwissSys myself if I was working at the CFC when it was selected as the official CFC pairing/reporting program. There are several other programs that work much better IMO.
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