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Wisconsin Backgammon Championship Tournament format
Posted By: adambulldog In Response To: Wisconsin Backgammon Championship Tournament format (Mislav Radica)
Date: Wednesday, 21 October 2009, at 5:30 a.m.
The basic format is this: we play 8 rounds of Swiss. Once you have three losses you can no longer win the main event but are still alive for the consolation consolation and once you have four losses you are out altogether. After the Swiss portion ends, a knockout tournament ensues. This portion works like a regular single-elimination tournament: you are out as soon as you lose.
The Swiss portion of the tournament can be abbreviated to 7 rounds or extended to nine or even ten rounds depending on the resulting draw for the knockout portion that follows. UBK, Bill or Sam can explain the algorithm used to determine when the Swiss portion actually ends.
The general idea is that at the end of the 8 (or 7 or 9) rounds, the player (if there is one) who is still undefeated gets seeded directly into the finals of the knockout tournament. One-loss players are seeded into the semis, and two-loss players into the quarterfinals. But it doesn't always work out this way in practice. If there are a bunch of two-loss players they may be seeded into the round of 16, and some may get byes in that round. I believe (but I may be wrong) that is what happened earlier this year.
As the knockout tournament progresses, losers feed into the consolation bracket.
For a five-round tournament, I imagine players should be eliminated from championship contention with two losses, and from consolation contention with three losses.
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