Hosting a large party Memorial Day weekend and I’ve gotten the group jazzed up on the idea of a Swiss bracket HU NLHM tournament so now I have to actually figure out the structure.
Here are parameters:
We will have 5 hours to play total. Should have 12-16 players
Following the general rules that x Swiss rounds is sufficient for up to 2^x players and that rounds should be roughly 1/3 of players I am think 4 rounds.
I would like each round to be a Bo3
I have used this @BGinGA structure many times for HU with friends and quite liked it
But I worry that as currently designed it’ll go a bit too long. I imagine there will be 30 min of wasted time organizing groups and moving people so there’s 4.5 hours of play time. 4 rounds of games that go to game 3 with 30 min games is 6 hours so that’s a no go.
An option is to make each round just 2 games and do something like, win both = +5, tie = +2, lose = 0
That’s then 8 games total which should be closer to 4 hours.
The other route is to make each game go fast than 30 min (on average). To get the timing to work I’d probably need to get them down to 20 min per game. That is possible with lowering the time per level to 4 min but that seems insane.
Thoughts?
How would you do payouts? How would you do tie break? There won’t be time for additional tie breaker games.
Here are parameters:
We will have 5 hours to play total. Should have 12-16 players
Following the general rules that x Swiss rounds is sufficient for up to 2^x players and that rounds should be roughly 1/3 of players I am think 4 rounds.
I would like each round to be a Bo3
I have used this @BGinGA structure many times for HU with friends and quite liked it
But I worry that as currently designed it’ll go a bit too long. I imagine there will be 30 min of wasted time organizing groups and moving people so there’s 4.5 hours of play time. 4 rounds of games that go to game 3 with 30 min games is 6 hours so that’s a no go.
An option is to make each round just 2 games and do something like, win both = +5, tie = +2, lose = 0
That’s then 8 games total which should be closer to 4 hours.
The other route is to make each game go fast than 30 min (on average). To get the timing to work I’d probably need to get them down to 20 min per game. That is possible with lowering the time per level to 4 min but that seems insane.
Thoughts?
How would you do payouts? How would you do tie break? There won’t be time for additional tie breaker games.