Squ34K
12-08-2008, 11:36 PM
Hey everybody, among looking at several tournament introductions (some of which look very promising) I have stumbled upon one key element missing. That element, of course, is the lack of posting a format or moreso the use of a format that disavantages a lesser-team (costing them entrance fees that could be put to better use). In order to assist directors who either may be starting a new tournament/weekly event I think that a community guide should be created to create some sort of format standard for competition.
This can (and will) be edited as more discussion takes place.
Some initial issues with this idea are:
1)How to balance style and score in a Battle of the Bands/Performance tournament. (Usually subjectivity can cause a band who scores really well score-wise and still have decent performances to be placed lower)
2)Single or Double elimination?
3) What to do if less than 5 bands are participating?
4) Will time play into this setup?
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Are you familiar with the way soccer championships are formated? Well regardless... you have say, 3 bands in a "group" for prelims. It's round robin and the highest combined score from each group advances and get byes, second and 3rd places faces each other in the 1st one or two rounds.
Single eliminations, best combined score of 2 songs until semi finals (both bands pick one song). Songs cannot be repeatedly picked by a single band.
Then best combined 4-song total in semis.
Then 5-song (tourney director or crowd chooses 5th or could choose random) for finals.
Grant it, prelims would have to take place in the morning and the knockout stage later in the day (to take a break for food etc.) but I think it's a fairly solid set up for a score tournament... or even a BotB tournament.
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Again, this is all a working draft. Post what you think (especially to the questions at hand).:cool:
Ultimately, we want to have some sort of universal standard model for people to create tournaments off of without much controversy and still have players wanting more and enjoying themselves.
This can (and will) be edited as more discussion takes place.
Some initial issues with this idea are:
1)How to balance style and score in a Battle of the Bands/Performance tournament. (Usually subjectivity can cause a band who scores really well score-wise and still have decent performances to be placed lower)
2)Single or Double elimination?
3) What to do if less than 5 bands are participating?
4) Will time play into this setup?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
Are you familiar with the way soccer championships are formated? Well regardless... you have say, 3 bands in a "group" for prelims. It's round robin and the highest combined score from each group advances and get byes, second and 3rd places faces each other in the 1st one or two rounds.
Single eliminations, best combined score of 2 songs until semi finals (both bands pick one song). Songs cannot be repeatedly picked by a single band.
Then best combined 4-song total in semis.
Then 5-song (tourney director or crowd chooses 5th or could choose random) for finals.
Grant it, prelims would have to take place in the morning and the knockout stage later in the day (to take a break for food etc.) but I think it's a fairly solid set up for a score tournament... or even a BotB tournament.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Again, this is all a working draft. Post what you think (especially to the questions at hand).:cool:
Ultimately, we want to have some sort of universal standard model for people to create tournaments off of without much controversy and still have players wanting more and enjoying themselves.
