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UPA Manual of Tournament Formats

Copyright (c) The Ultimate Players Association, 1994

Please direct comments on this document to Eric Simon (70540.1522@compuserve.com).

1. Introduction

2. Basic Theories of Tournament Scheduling

3. Three Teams

4. Four Teams

5. Five Teams

6. Six Teams

7. Seven Teams

8. Eight Teams

9. Nine Teams

10. Ten Teams

11. Eleven Teams

12. Twelve Teams

13. Thirteen Teams

14. Fourteen Teams

15. Fifteen Teams

16. Sixteen Teams

17. Seventeen Teams

18. Eighteen Teams

19. Nineteen Teams

20. Twenty Teams

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Detailed Contents

1. Introduction

2. Basic Theories of Tournament Scheduling

2.1. Seeding

2.2. How to Seed

2.3. A One-Day or Two-Day Format?

2.4. How to read these schedules

2.5. Tie breakers for round-robins

2.6. Tie Breakers for double elimination tournaments

3. Three Teams

Table 3.1. Three-Team Round-robin

3.1 The Three team tie-breaker problem

4. Four Teams

Table 4.1. Pre-set four-team round-robin

4.2. The flexible four-team round-robin

Table 4.2.1. Flexible four-team round-robin; 1 and 4 play first

Table 4.2.2. Flexible four-team round-robin; 1 and 3 play first

Table 4.3. Four-team single elimination

Table 4.4. Modified four-team double elimination

5. Five Teams

5.1. One team advances

5.1.1. Seven game option

5.1.2. Six game option

5.2. Two teams advance

5.3. Three teams advance

5.4. Four teams advance

5.5. Five teams advance

5.5.1. Seven game option one

5.5.2. Seven game option two

5.5.3. Eight game option

5.6. One day format

Table 5.1.1. Five-team round-robin

Table 5.1.2. Five-team round-robin split into two parts

6. Six Teams

6.1. One team advances

6.1.1. Seven round option

6.1.2. Eight round option

6.2. Two teams advance

6.3. Three teams advance

6.4. Four teams advance

6.4.1. Option one

6.4.2. Option two

6.5. Five or Six teams advance

Table 6.1. Six-team round-robin.

Table 6.2. Six team single elimination.

Table 6.3. Six team modified elimination.

Table 6.4. Six team modified elimination, seeding from two pools.

Table 6.5. Six team modified bracket - only two qualify.

7. Seven Teams

8. Eight Teams

8.1. Seeding into two pools of four

8.2. Four Fields:

8.3. Three or Four Fields; more than four teams advancing

8.4. Four fields, four or more advancing, round-robin

Table 8.1.1. Eight-team double elimination format

Table 8.1.2. Eight-team modified elimination format

Table 8.2. Two pools of four on three fields

Table 8.3. Eight team round-robin

8.5 Two-Division Modified Single Elimination

9. Nine Teams

9.1. One team advances

9.2. Two teams advance

9.2.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Second Day

9.2.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day

9.3. Three teams advance

9.4. Four through nine teams advance

9.4.1. Option One - Nine Team Round-Robin

9.4.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day

9.5. Starting with two unequal pools of four and five

9.6. Discussion of a Nine Team Round-Robin

Table 9.1.1. Nine team round-robin grid

Table 9.1.2. Nine team round-robin, general

Table 9.1.3. Nine team round-robin over two days

10. Ten Teams

10.1. One team advances

10.2. Two teams advance

10.2.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Second Day

10.2.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day

10.3. Three teams advance

10.4. Four teams advance

10.4.1. Option One - Double Elimination on the Second Day

10.4.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance to Modified Round-Robin

10.5. Five or six teams advance

10.5.1. Option One - Modified Elimination on the Second Day

10.5.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day

10.6. Six through eight teams advance

10.7. Seeding for pools of five

Table 10.1. Ten team round-robin grid

Table 10.2. Ten-team modified elimination

11. Eleven Teams

11.1. One team advances

11.2. Two teams advance

11.2.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Second Day

11.3. Three teams advance

11.3.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Modified Elimination

11.3.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance Modified Round-Robin

11.4. Four teams advance

11.4.1. Option One - Double Elimination on the Second Day

11.4.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance Modified Round-Robin

11.5. Five or more teams advance

11.5.1. Option One - Modified Elimination on the Second Day

11.5.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day

11.6. Six through eight teams advance

11.7. Seeding for two unequal pools of five and six

11.8. Sample Schedule

Table 11.1. Eleven team round-robin grid

12. Twelve Teams

12.1. One team advances

12.2. Two teams advance

12.3. Three teams advance

12.3.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Modified Elimination

12.3.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance to Modified Round-Robin

12.4. Four teams advance

12.4.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Modified Elimination

12.4.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance to Modified Round-Robin

12.5. Five or six teams advance

12.5.1. Option One - Modified Elimination on the Second Day

12.5.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day

12.6. Six through eight teams advance

12.7. Seeding for two pools of six

12.8. Sample Schedule

Table 12.1. Twelve team round-robin grid

13. Thirteen Teams

13.1. The first day of play

13.1.1. Overview

13.1.2. Seeding

13.1.3. Schedule

13.2. One team advances

13.3. Two teams advance

13.4. Three through seven teams advance

13.5. Eight or more teams advance

Table 13.1. Thirteen team round-robin grid:

Table 13.2. Seeding an 8-team bracket from three pools

14. Fourteen Teams

14.1. The first day of play

14.1.1. Overview

14.1.2. Seeding

14.1.3. Schedule

Table 14.1. Fourteen team round-robin grid:

15. Fifteen Teams

16. Sixteen Teams

16.1. One team advances, or other Non-UPA Tournaments

16.2. Two teams advance (UPA Standard Double Elimination Format)

16.3. Five thru Eight Teams Advance

Table 16.1. Sixteen team round-robin grid