Tournament Question

stevekur1

stevekur1

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A local 9ball tourney i play in, is trying to do a Buy Back format. meaning that if you get knocked out you can pay your way back in. Now to do this do you treat that like a double elimination tornament. I am not sure what they are gonna do about the calcutta, should the player half to re-ante his part. or is he not eligable in the calcutta.

Does anybody know where i can download tournament sheets from, hopefully Double Elim if that the way we have to treat it.

Thanks
Steve
 
But the buyer doesnt have to put up another half does he?

And does the tournament run like a double Elim? what if only one player buys back in?

Should he just play the same guy that he just lost to?

Steve
 
stevekur1 said:
A local 9ball tourney i play in, is trying to do a Buy Back format. meaning that if you get knocked out you can pay your way back in. Now to do this do you treat that like a double elimination tornament. I am not sure what they are gonna do about the calcutta, should the player half to re-ante his part. or is he not eligable in the calcutta.

Does anybody know where i can download tournament sheets from, hopefully Double Elim if that the way we have to treat it.

Thanks
Steve
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Here is how we ran buy-back tournaments around here: Play single-elimination in groups of 8. If you win your group of 8, you get into the money and come back when the finals start. If you are one of the 7 losers in a group, you can buy back in. The hardest part of this is to set up the draw of the buy-backs. If you have a lot of people, wait until you have 16 bought back so no one knows who will be in their group of 8. Towards the end of the prelims, you can't wait for 16 players so draw when you have 8. If the last group of 8 is small, they got lucky. It's OK to buy back more than once. You can wait on the calcutta until the finals.

Once a group of 8 starts, have them play all the way through to one winner. You don't have to wait for everyone to get there to start the tournament -- just start with the players you have and throw the late ones in with the buy-backs. If you want, you could have some groups of local players start the night before.

The charts are dead simple -- one sheet of paper for each group of eight and the big board of maybe 16 finalists. Everything is single elimination. The only detail is that the qualified players should go on the big board in "seeded" order so the first players to qualify have the best chance at getting a bye, if any.
 
stevekur1 said:
But the buyer doesnt have to put up another half does he?

And does the tournament run like a double Elim? what if only one player buys back in?

Should he just play the same guy that he just lost to?

Steve
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You redraw brackets after every round
 
Buy-Backs

You can set up a 64-player single elimination chart for buy-backs. Number them in 4-player groups with 1 thru 4 at the top. Next, 61 - 64. Then, 29-32 followed by 33-36, 13-16, 49-52, 17-20, 45-48, 21-24, 41-44, 9-12, 53-56, 25-28, 37-40, 5-8, 57-60. Be sure you draw in sequence and it will work out fine. Accomodates any number of players from 8 to 64. The earliest winners will get a third-round bye if the chart doesn't fill up.
 
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