I’ve long been a fan of multiple patterns tournaments for the interesting challenge they offer. Even when the patterns are soft, you still have to focus and use more of your skills than in a single pattern tournament, especially if the format is one pattern on left lanes and another pattern on right lanes of each pair. And when the patterns are challenging, it’s even more of an interesting and fun format. It also can be quite grueling, but to me that is part of why I compete: to...