Tournament sponsor BETTER have set up a plan ahead of time - of which I found some via Yahoo!
What follows explains why I see us continuing to develop our elections plans, rather than copying.
After looking, I LIKE sports Round Robins tournaments as a base BUT, EACH VOTER ranks candidates and conducts a tournament among all candidates, in which wins are based on:
Both candidates ranked - ranking selects winner.
One candidate ranked - and wins for loser not playing.
Neither candidate ranked - so no game and no score.
At end of season (election), all tournament results are added together to determine season winner. It is here that cycles can occur.
From another post:
Second, Ralph Suter wrote:The only problem with IRR is when there is no Condorcet winner. But as far as I know, elections with no CW are totally theoretical. For them to happen would require voters to seriously confused about their preferences for different candidates.
I see no confusion in the following:
A and B have serious believers, so that their 65>35 split is expected.
C is much like B, but says SOMETHING in a way that sells a majority of B backers 33>32.
35 A
32 B
33 C>B
A>C 35>33 C>B 33>32 B>A 65>35
Two reasons for providing for cycles:
They can happen, so be prepared.
If not prepared, you tempt fate too much, and better expect them.
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