UPA Manual of Tournament Formats

Copyright (c) The Ultimate Players Association, 1994

Please direct comments on this document to Eric Simon (70540.1522@compuserve.com).

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic Theories of Tournament Scheduling
  • 3. Three Teams
  • 4. Four Teams
  • 5. Five Teams
  • 6. Six Teams
  • 7. Seven Teams
  • 8. Eight Teams
  • 9. Nine Teams
  • 10. Ten Teams
  • 11. Eleven Teams
  • 12. Twelve Teams
  • 13. Thirteen Teams
  • 14. Fourteen Teams
  • 15. Fifteen Teams
  • 16. Sixteen Teams
  • 17. Seventeen Teams
  • 18. Eighteen Teams
  • 19. Nineteen Teams
  • 20. Twenty Teams

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  • Detailed Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Basic Theories of Tournament Scheduling
  • 2.1. Seeding
  • 2.2. How to Seed
  • 2.3. A One-Day or Two-Day Format?
  • 2.4. How to read these schedules
  • 2.5. Tie breakers for round-robins
  • 2.6. Tie Breakers for double elimination tournaments
  • 3. Three Teams
  • Table 3.1. Three-Team Round-robin
  • 3.1 The Three team tie-breaker problem
  • 4. Four Teams
  • Table 4.1. Pre-set four-team round-robin
  • 4.2. The flexible four-team round-robin
  • Table 4.2.1. Flexible four-team round-robin; 1 and 4 play first
  • Table 4.2.2. Flexible four-team round-robin; 1 and 3 play first
  • Table 4.3. Four-team single elimination
  • Table 4.4. Modified four-team double elimination
  • 5. Five Teams
  • 5.1. One team advances
  • 5.1.1. Seven game option
  • 5.1.2. Six game option
  • 5.2. Two teams advance
  • 5.3. Three teams advance
  • 5.4. Four teams advance
  • 5.5. Five teams advance
  • 5.5.1. Seven game option one
  • 5.5.2. Seven game option two
  • 5.5.3. Eight game option
  • 5.6. One day format
  • Table 5.1.1. Five-team round-robin
  • Table 5.1.2. Five-team round-robin split into two parts
  • 6. Six Teams
  • 6.1. One team advances
  • 6.1.1. Seven round option
  • 6.1.2. Eight round option
  • 6.2. Two teams advance
  • 6.3. Three teams advance
  • 6.4. Four teams advance
  • 6.4.1. Option one
  • 6.4.2. Option two
  • 6.5. Five or Six teams advance
  • Table 6.1. Six-team round-robin.
  • Table 6.2. Six team single elimination.
  • Table 6.3. Six team modified elimination.
  • Table 6.4. Six team modified elimination, seeding from two pools.
  • Table 6.5. Six team modified bracket - only two qualify.
  • 7. Seven Teams
  • 8. Eight Teams
  • 8.1. Seeding into two pools of four
  • 8.2. Four Fields:
  • 8.3. Three or Four Fields; more than four teams advancing
  • 8.4. Four fields, four or more advancing, round-robin
  • Table 8.1.1. Eight-team double elimination format
  • Table 8.1.2. Eight-team modified elimination format
  • Table 8.2. Two pools of four on three fields
  • Table 8.3. Eight team round-robin
  • 8.5 Two-Division Modified Single Elimination
  • 9. Nine Teams
  • 9.1. One team advances
  • 9.2. Two teams advance
  • 9.2.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Second Day
  • 9.2.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 9.3. Three teams advance
  • 9.4. Four through nine teams advance
  • 9.4.1. Option One - Nine Team Round-Robin
  • 9.4.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 9.5. Starting with two unequal pools of four and five
  • 9.6. Discussion of a Nine Team Round-Robin
  • Table 9.1.1. Nine team round-robin grid
  • Table 9.1.2. Nine team round-robin, general
  • Table 9.1.3. Nine team round-robin over two days
  • 10. Ten Teams
  • 10.1. One team advances
  • 10.2. Two teams advance
  • 10.2.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Second Day
  • 10.2.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 10.3. Three teams advance
  • 10.4. Four teams advance
  • 10.4.1. Option One - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 10.4.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance to Modified Round-Robin
  • 10.5. Five or six teams advance
  • 10.5.1. Option One - Modified Elimination on the Second Day
  • 10.5.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 10.6. Six through eight teams advance
  • 10.7. Seeding for pools of five
  • Table 10.1. Ten team round-robin grid
  • Table 10.2. Ten-team modified elimination
  • 11. Eleven Teams
  • 11.1. One team advances
  • 11.2. Two teams advance
  • 11.2.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Second Day
  • 11.3. Three teams advance
  • 11.3.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Modified Elimination
  • 11.3.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance Modified Round-Robin
  • 11.4. Four teams advance
  • 11.4.1. Option One - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 11.4.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance Modified Round-Robin
  • 11.5. Five or more teams advance
  • 11.5.1. Option One - Modified Elimination on the Second Day
  • 11.5.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 11.6. Six through eight teams advance
  • 11.7. Seeding for two unequal pools of five and six
  • 11.8. Sample Schedule
  • Table 11.1. Eleven team round-robin grid
  • 12. Twelve Teams
  • 12.1. One team advances
  • 12.2. Two teams advance
  • 12.3. Three teams advance
  • 12.3.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Modified Elimination
  • 12.3.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance to Modified Round-Robin
  • 12.4. Four teams advance
  • 12.4.1. Option One - Six Teams Advance to Modified Elimination
  • 12.4.2. Option Two - Six Teams Advance to Modified Round-Robin
  • 12.5. Five or six teams advance
  • 12.5.1. Option One - Modified Elimination on the Second Day
  • 12.5.2. Option Two - Double Elimination on the Second Day
  • 12.6. Six through eight teams advance
  • 12.7. Seeding for two pools of six
  • 12.8. Sample Schedule
  • Table 12.1. Twelve team round-robin grid
  • 13. Thirteen Teams
  • 13.1. The first day of play
  • 13.1.1. Overview
  • 13.1.2. Seeding
  • 13.1.3. Schedule
  • 13.2. One team advances
  • 13.3. Two teams advance
  • 13.4. Three through seven teams advance
  • 13.5. Eight or more teams advance
  • Table 13.1. Thirteen team round-robin grid:
  • Table 13.2. Seeding an 8-team bracket from three pools
  • 14. Fourteen Teams
  • 14.1. The first day of play
  • 14.1.1. Overview
  • 14.1.2. Seeding
  • 14.1.3. Schedule
  • Table 14.1. Fourteen team round-robin grid:
  • 15. Fifteen Teams
  • 16. Sixteen Teams
  • 16.1. One team advances, or other Non-UPA Tournaments
  • 16.2. Two teams advance (UPA Standard Double Elimination Format)
  • 16.3. Five thru Eight Teams Advance
  • Table 16.1. Sixteen team round-robin grid
  • 17. Seventeen Teams
  • 18. Eighteen Teams
  • Table 18.1. Eighteen team round-robin grid
  • 19. Nineteen Teams
  • 20. Twenty Teams
  • Table 20.1. Twenty team round-robin grid