There's also the UPA Manual of Championship Series Tournament Formats, which has schedules for 3-24 teams, with any number of teams advancing (say, the top 3 from the B tour), and alternative schedules for venues with limited number of pitches.
http://www2.upa.org/files/Format_Manual_Version_4.0%20_8.17.05_.pdf Uni Ultimate has been playing with double/triple-elimination formats qualifying 3 and/or 6 teams from 12, 16, 18, 20 and 22 entered teams for the last couple of years, and aside from a few knee-jerk reactions ("How come the 1/2 final isn't the last game?" "Why did 3rd/4th place get to play more games than anyone else?" "My team should never have been in the 1/2 final and failed to qualify!") and occasional poor attention to schedule detail, it's been a great success, and I hope the UKUA look into the possibility of adopting some ideas from it for the B tour (although it may not be feasible with 90 minute games). Maybe sometime soon I'll start talking about how exciting the Callahan rule is, or how the WFDF ruleset fails to go into sufficient detail like the UPA rules do, but I wouldn't want to interrupt the current debates... Felix BBTD Brighton Beyond Directions video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3152846707668491311 On 12/07/06, Michael Stillwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12 Jul 2006 10:07:20 +0100, Mark Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BD, I may not be a first team player but it does seem rather stange that > there is all this fuss about schedules when I would have thought the > simplest thing would be to have UKUA produce template tournament schedules > for all numbers of teams between 8 and 40 say in 2 or 3 different formats > (triple elimination, crossovers and a straight knockout) and for different > numbers of available pitches and then put these on the UKUA website. There's whole books on this subject--I imagined they were being used already. e.g. Organizing Successful Tournaments, by John Byl, see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0736059520 "... More than 1,000 Microsoft Word templates provide the framework for virtually any tournament format and are programmed to automatically create draw sheets for competitions based on your input of divisions, seeds, locations, dates, and times. Every major type of competition—single elimination, double elimination, multilevel, round robin, ladder, pyramid, and level rotation—is thoroughly explained to help you determine the type that best suits your needs. You'll also find information on assigning seeds, awarding byes, and establishing proper tiebreaking procedures. ..." Also, "Procedures for structuring and scheduling sports tournaments: Elimination, Consolation, Placement, and Round-Robin Design", by Francis M. Rokosz, see http://www.ccthomas.com/details.cfm?P_ISBN=0398070504 --M. -- http://beebo.org +44 78 2118 9049 __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
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