assigns consecutive IDs to each late entrant as they are entered. Usually the user manually pairs
these players against themselves.
NOTE: it is recommended that the user forms a clear idea about what pairs they want to add
and writes them down on paper before proceeding!
For example, we closed the registration with 58 players and generated the pairing for the first round.
Then 6 late entrants arrive. Vega will assign them the IDs 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64. Let’s suppose
the user wants to pair them in this way:
59 60
61 62
63 64
To let Vega add these new pairs the user must press the Modify Pai ring button. The window for
manual pairing appears and at this point, the user can add the new pairs listed above. This way the
new pairs will appear in the normal pairing list.
NOTE: The ‘Modify Pairing’ button can be activated only for the current round (the pairing
of the previous rounds cannot be modified).
2.11.7 Importing results from an external file
In a large blitz tournament with several hundreds of pairs, it is convenient to work with many
computers. Each arbiter has one computer and will insert the results for a subset of the total
pairings. This task is performed using another program, which will collect all the results and
produce a text file with an extension of *.res in following format:
1st row: number_of_pairs current_round
and for each successive row: id_white id_black
code_result
The value for code_result is that which is reported on the tooltips over buttons in the Insert Result
section of the Round Manager page. For example the first 6 rows of such a file could be:
16
9
8
7
19
1
…
7
10
2
3
5
17
1
0
1
5
3
2.11.8 Improving colors
Vega automatically assigns the correct color to each player1. However in some cases the arbiter
might decide to assign them manually to refine the pairing, exchanging colors. Press the Improve
colors button in the Round Manager page.
A new window will appear (see below) showing the details of the pairs in the current round. The
user should pay attention to the colored squares because their colors have special meaning. In fact
the due color white is indicated by a white square, the due color black is indicated by black square.
A blue square appears for players that have no due color, for example at round 2, after a forfeit
game. Inside the square there is a smaller square that is red if the player has a fixed due color, or
1
If using the USCF Swiss system, Vega will, after the so called natural pairing (upper half vs
bottom half), improve the color distribution using the “Look Ahead method” described in the USCF
Official Rules - 5th edition. See Appendix F for further details.
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