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.
 
iusedtoberich said:
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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Historically DCC used a special software that allowed them to do a re-draw every round and thus allow the buy back at any time. But they recently switched to Digital Pool - I haven’t checked to see if that is available generally.

There is only one tournament in my area that does any type of buy back (the right to replay your match). This can be done with any normal tournament software - you just don’t enter the result until the “final” result.
 
GideonF said:
Historically DCC used a special software that allowed them to do a re-draw every round and thus allow the buy back at any time. But they recently switched to Digital Pool - I haven’t checked to see if that is available generally.

There is only one tournament in my area that does any type of buy back (the right to replay your match). This can be done with any normal tournament software - you just don’t enter the result until the “final” result.
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That__ sounds unfair. Be like playing the undead. :ROFLMAO:
 
straightline said:
That__ sounds unfair. Be like playing the undead. :ROFLMAO:
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Often you get this happening fairly early, when both players have a BB. So both players will have their BB. If I play someone I can’t beat (like the time I drew John Morra in the first round), I’m not buying back after he spanks me. If the two players are closely matched, the loser will often buy back, and if he wins then the other player will often buy back. So it becomes best 2 out of 3 sets in the end.

The one time it sucks is if you happen to upset a much better player. At that point the better player buys back and is highly likely to win the second set. And I’m probably NOT wasting my BB trying to beat them again.

It’s a neat option overall for a once a year tournament, but I wouldn’t want it be standard.
 
Cool hearing different formats of "buy back". I have never heard of buy-back = replaying the match just lost. Wouldn't that hold up the entire event one round? And why should the winner be penalized?

Not judging the format, just seems strange to me:)

That reminds me years ago on here one of the members (I forget who) wrote about being a TD. He said (me paraphrasing from 10 plus year old memory): "I went to check on a match that was going slow and holding up the bracket. I asked the players what is going on, what the score was. They said it was 2-2 (on a race to 7). I said how can it be taking that long? They said they went hill-hill, and rather than playing 1 game for it, they decided to replay the whole set. I threw them both out of the tournament!"
 
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