[ahh]

I am in charge of running our club teams of 4 championship. We run it over 3 nights playing about 28 30 per night. we are slightly bored with the usual all play all format over the 3 nights and had hoped to spice it up by playing a double elimination for 8 teams .This would have worked very well but we have hit a hitch 10 teams have entered no doubt excited by the new format .Any ideas how to run it ? we want longer matches and no sit outs . Any help gratefully received.
Jim Hay

[mgoetze]

Perhaps split into two groups of 5, play round-robin the first two nights, and semifinals and finals on the final night? (Semifinals would be A1-B2, A2-B1 for 1st-4th place, A3-B4, A4-B3 for 5th-8th place, and A5-B5 can battle out 9th place.)

[mfa1010]

ahh, on 2010-November-10, 04:52, said:

...playing a double elimination for 8 teams. This would have worked very well...

Just curious, how does that work?

[paulg]

How about the following. The only really undesirable element is the triple in Round 3. You can also do something different with the plate.

On the first evening play two triples (2 x 14 board matches, resulting in one undefeated team and two once-defeated) and two head-to-heads (28 board matches).

The second evening:

Round 2: 14 boards

Undefeated pool: 4 teams - two head-to-head matches
Once-defeated pool: 6 teams - three head-to-head matches

Round 3: 14 boards

Undefeated pool: 2 teams - one head-to-head match
Once-defeated pool: 5 teams - one head-to-head match, one triple qualifying one team

The third evening:

Round 4: 14 boards

Undefeated pool: 1 teams - has choice of opponent (costs one life)
Once-defeated pool: 3 teams - two head-to-head matches

Round 5: 14 boards

Final: head to head
Third-place play-off: head to head

Plate competition is effectively a Swiss competition with drop-ins

Round 1: (second half of second evening)
3 teams - play a triple (2 x 7 boards)

Round 2:
6 teams - match 3 drop-ins against existing teams first, then Swiss

Round 3:
2 more rounds of Swiss.

[ahh]

Many thanks for the suggestions. It has given somwthing to work with.
Jim Hay

[Siegmund]

My two bits is that the full round robin is the best approach, and anything else is, well, spice for the sake of spice, at the expense of quality of the movement. Whatever floats the players' boats, though, I guess...