2015 Ottawa Foosball Championships - June 12th - 14th

[5barwarrior]

I would use the swiss system instead of your round robin stage. It is better because it is auto correcting for rank and such. You can then take the top 8 players for open, the next 8 for SP and the remainder for Amateur playoffs.

Biggest challenge would be the find the right software to drive it. I have some tournament software. I'll check what it can do and bring it tonight.

As for expalining it to players, we can draft something up that makes it clear.

Chris

What about using the swiss tournament system?

I'm considering it, but I'm hesitant because a lot of players are not familiar with it.

Points/ranks also have to be spot on or your match ups wont be fair. Some swiss formats have no playoffs but I want to have playoffs. I then have to decide if I'm going to run multiple playoff brackets so no one is eliminated, or eliminate a set # of teams and run one bracket. Then you run into the possibility of a pro team who goes .500 against the strongest teams being eliminated and an amateur team who goes .600+ against amateur teams making the cut, I think players would take issue with this.