Tournament Formats

Tournament Formats
Challenge tournaments
            This tournament has levels where winners go up and losers go down from their
respective positions. Winning is important to climb to the top position. This type of
tournament needs sufficient time to give chance to bottom dwellers to reach the top.
Tournament positions are usually occupied on first-come basis.

The General Rules

1. Players are not allowed to refuse challenge.

2. Players are not allowed to play the same opposition twice consecutively.
3. The absence of a player may cause him/her to move down of position or be
replaced by players below him/her.

Types of Challenge Tournaments

 

1. Ladder tournament – suits single player competitions like tennis or badminton

where participants challenge each other on one-on-one match. Players move up
or down the ladder depending on how they fared in their matches. The player on
top of the ladder will be declared the winner.
2. Pyramid tournament – is almost similar to the ladder tournament except that it
has more players at the lower level when the tournament starts, then the number
of players decreases as the level progresses. An individual can challenge
anybody within the horizontal level and the winner goes up to challenge the
higher level.
3. Spider Web tournament – is a bracketing design taken from the shape of spider
web. The top position is the center where players reach it though the lines drawn
from the center. The participant who gets to the center of the web gets the
championship. Lines are drawn radially from the center with the line crossing the.
Challenges can be against anyone on the next position nearer to the center but a
player coming from a loss can only challenge someone from his/her own level.
This type of tournament offers more competition.

Round-Robin Tournament
The round-robin tournament is most commonly use and one of the top competitive
tournament types since it permits maximal play. All teams will play against each other at
least once during the tournament and the team with the most points will be the winner.
Teams get corresponding game points from a win and loss. Round-robin is ideally used
for team competition playing not more than eight games.
 1. Round Robin – is a format where each team plays a number of games (n- 1)
depending on how many teams are participating. Usually, teams are divided in to
two groups (n/2) and ranked by game points. Crossover games are then held
with the top team in a group plays against the bottom team of another group, and
the second ranked teams playing against the third ranked teams from the
opposite group.
2. Lombard Round Robin – is a round robin variation used for limited allotted period.
If full games are not possible, mini games are played. All scored for or against
points are recorded to determine the winning team with the best ratio.

Elimination Tournaments
An elimination tournament is for short round of matches. Single or pair losses instantly
eliminate participants. This suitable for time-constrained events but is disadvantageous
for maximal play.

General Guidelines

1. Draw is set up in even counts of brackets to the power of two.

2. Brackets not used by teams constitute a bye.
3. All byes are generated from the tom seeded teams.
4. The four top seeded teams are spaced in the draw so as not to play against each
other until the later rounds.
5. All games must be numbered to help the organization of the tournament.

Types of Elimination Tournaments

1. Single or straight elimination – is when a player or a team loses, they get

eliminated; the winning (player or team) continues to play to the next round. This
happens until there is only one team left, which will be declared the winner. This
is usually used when time is limited while sacrificing maximum play. It is simplest
to range and fastest way to proclaim a winner.

2. Double elimination – is similar to single elimination except that a player or team gets
eliminated after losing twice.