Tourney: BFF London 2011 09.10.2011 5th Anniversary

The main principle of Swiss to to play the closest team you've not played yet (and that that game doesn't produce impossible games in that round, or future rounds). Sometimes yesterday it seemed to choose strange pairings.

H-Bomb: Someone once mentioned to me that Challonge finds the two teams that have the most similar results and pairs them before looking for the next closest pairing and so on. In that way it would make sense that the bye team would be the team with the no other team very similar to them in results (the team that the software already places the least similar to anyone else)? If that's the case, there'd be little-to-no-point in arbitrarily playing two bye teams against each other as all you'll do is upset the SR process for those teams (they'd have skewed standings based on playing a non-similar team).

TLDR: Playing bye teams off against each other may not work as the teams can come from anywhere in the standings.