That said, I don’t expect the setup to be particularly sensitive to the control games or time controls.
If you have something like: A: novice B: ~1700 C: ~2200 Then A is going to robustly lose to B and B to C. An extra couple of minutes either way isn’t going to matter. (thinking for longer might get you 100 Elo, but nowhere close to 500)
If this reliably holds—e.g. B beats A 9-0 in blitz games, and the same for C vs B, then it doesn’t seem worth the time to do more careful controls. (or at least the primary reason to do more careful controls at that point would be a worry that the results wouldn’t otherwise be taken seriously by some because you weren’t doing Proper Science)
That said, I don’t expect the setup to be particularly sensitive to the control games or time controls.
If you have something like:
A: novice
B: ~1700
C: ~2200
Then A is going to robustly lose to B and B to C.
An extra couple of minutes either way isn’t going to matter. (thinking for longer might get you 100 Elo, but nowhere close to 500)
If this reliably holds—e.g. B beats A 9-0 in blitz games, and the same for C vs B, then it doesn’t seem worth the time to do more careful controls. (or at least the primary reason to do more careful controls at that point would be a worry that the results wouldn’t otherwise be taken seriously by some because you weren’t doing Proper Science)