Post by Dylan Fettig on Jul 16, 2014 21:09:15 GMT -6
Proposed National Tournament Mechanics
I have been developing this idea since nationals and all the drama that happened with setting up the tournament pools. To sum up my thoughts, I believe the tournament could be better for everyone if there were two separate brackets created for Sunday play.
How this would work is that throughout the season games would be played and a ranking system would be used to determine the seeds of each team (like we already do). These seeds would then be used to put each team into 4 pools that would look like this
A - 1, 8, 9, 16 *With extra teams being added in the same snake pattern*
B - 2, 7, 10, 15
C - 3, 6, 11, 14
D - 4, 5, 12, 13
All of the teams in the pools will play each other and the top two teams will move on to the championship bracket. The rest of the teams will be put in the consolation bracket or “developing team’s bracket” or however we want to phrase it to make them feel good about themselves.
The brackets would then be set up with the 1st and 2nd place teams from each pool on opposite sides of each other. Like this
1A____
2C____|-----|
| _______
1D____ | |
2B____|-----| | 1A = Winner of pool A
| 2A = 2nd place of pool A
1B____ |
2D____|-----| |
|_______|
1C____ |
2A____|-----
The same would happen for the consolation bracket.
Since the bracket is only half the size as normal it would then be reasonably possible to do double elimination brackets. This would allow all teams to play more games and the separate brackets would promote all of the games to be more competitive. It would also remove the obscurity of “How does the Saturday games effect seeding on Sunday?” since those games will determine which bracket you get placed into.
Positive points: More games / team
Better competition / team
Every game played during the weekend would be important
Teams will have a chance to make up for an off game
Final results will be more conclusive (ie 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th places decided in each bracket)
Negative points: Tournament may take longer (but can be combated if we change to the new victory mechanic idea)
Let me know what you think! I doubt it's perfect but it could result in a better national tournament!
I have been developing this idea since nationals and all the drama that happened with setting up the tournament pools. To sum up my thoughts, I believe the tournament could be better for everyone if there were two separate brackets created for Sunday play.
How this would work is that throughout the season games would be played and a ranking system would be used to determine the seeds of each team (like we already do). These seeds would then be used to put each team into 4 pools that would look like this
A - 1, 8, 9, 16 *With extra teams being added in the same snake pattern*
B - 2, 7, 10, 15
C - 3, 6, 11, 14
D - 4, 5, 12, 13
All of the teams in the pools will play each other and the top two teams will move on to the championship bracket. The rest of the teams will be put in the consolation bracket or “developing team’s bracket” or however we want to phrase it to make them feel good about themselves.
The brackets would then be set up with the 1st and 2nd place teams from each pool on opposite sides of each other. Like this
1A____
2C____|-----|
| _______
1D____ | |
2B____|-----| | 1A = Winner of pool A
| 2A = 2nd place of pool A
1B____ |
2D____|-----| |
|_______|
1C____ |
2A____|-----
The same would happen for the consolation bracket.
Since the bracket is only half the size as normal it would then be reasonably possible to do double elimination brackets. This would allow all teams to play more games and the separate brackets would promote all of the games to be more competitive. It would also remove the obscurity of “How does the Saturday games effect seeding on Sunday?” since those games will determine which bracket you get placed into.
Positive points: More games / team
Better competition / team
Every game played during the weekend would be important
Teams will have a chance to make up for an off game
Final results will be more conclusive (ie 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th places decided in each bracket)
Negative points: Tournament may take longer (but can be combated if we change to the new victory mechanic idea)
Let me know what you think! I doubt it's perfect but it could result in a better national tournament!