How do buy back at tournaments work?

Positively Ralf

Positively Ralf

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Obviously I know it's the option to get back into the tournament, but when you buy in, does everyone get rebracketed after the current round has finished? Or is there a separate bracket for people who bought in?

Also, is it usually more expensive to get a rebuy or does it depend on what the TD charges?
 
Usually the buy back takes the place of any first round BYE entries. There are only as many buy backs as byes.

Alternatively, I have seen years ago at my local weekly a 32 man bracket have an entire 16 man leg added to it to accommodate a bunch of first round losers that wanted to re-buy.
 
Positively Ralf said:
Obviously I know it's the option to get back into the tournament, but when you buy in, does everyone get rebracketed after the current round has finished? Or is there a separate bracket for people who bought in?

Also, is it usually more expensive to get a rebuy or does it depend on what the TD charges?
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It depends. At the DCC (the most famous place with a buy back) every round is a random draw (no traditional bracket). The entry is $160 and the BB is $100. You buy back and you go into the draw for the next round.

I’ve played another tournament where they have a normal double elimination bracket but if you lose you can buy back for a rematch against the player that beat you and replay the match. Of course if you win that one the opponent can BB and you play a 3rd match.
 
straightline said:
Can you pick and choose which round? Or is there a way to accommodate that?
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At the Derby, the buy back is available once (each player has one buy back) and it’s available in any round (except the finals as of the last few years).

In my local event with the regular bracket, I believe the buy back was only available until the money rounds. Note that this type of buy back can bog the tournament down.
 
GideonF said:
At the Derby, the buy back is available once (each player has one buy back) and it’s available in any round (except the finals as of the last few years).

In my local event with the regular bracket, I believe the buy back was only available until the money rounds. Note that this type of buy back can bog the tournament down.
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Consecutive rounds though. I was wondering more along the lines of can a player sit out and then jump back in?
 
Derby is a one-off though. I've never heard of a local event doing anything close.

Buy back I've always seen simply take the place of a first round bye in a single elimination chart.

If you use DigitalPool, it has a feature to "add late player". It inserts them where a Bye was.
 
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