Chip Races

Hey folks, first time poster, I've been lurking around for the past couple of weeks.

Well, my friends and I are planning to run our first large multi-table tournament. Now mostly when we colour chips out of our tournaments, we simply round up. However, a couple people say this is unfair and lets the shorter stacks build up a bit of a come back. It's a pretty weak argument because it barely does.

Anyways, that's besides the point. We've been looking for an alternative method to colour out the chips, and I stumbled across the idea of a "chip Race" somewhere. Now the definition/instructions were pretty confusing.

I was just wondering if anyone could clarify how useful this technique is for tournaments, and how exactly to do it.

All help is Greatly appreciated.

Thanks.