Iām sure the validation process would freak out. I submitted some matches using swiss-sys to create the files. Since swiss-sys does not have a match option for tournament type, during validation it made note of the multiple games against other player. Once I recoded it as a match, it had no problem.
As I recall, the current upload format doesnāt even have a tournament (or section) type field in it. Thatās one of several fields that were added in 2005.
Although it āfreaks outā, it does allow you to override it. In a 3-division/9-section per division tournament with team trophies at the division level (the organizer came up with the format and looked for a director with a level of sanity questionable enough to run it), I had one section with four players in a five-round division. If I just did a quad then their teams would have fewer rounds to get points from for the team score, so I went five rounds with each playing two of the other three players twice. Once I overrode the āerrorā, it processed fine.
Jerry, are you sure you had to override it?
As I recall it notates that players have played each other more than once but thatās not considered either an error or a warning.
Itās been six months, so I canāt say for certain.
Itās only rhetorical until somebody does it. Your question implies nobody has done it yet ā which surprises me.
Bill Smythe