From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Jun 30 23:31:35 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA09126 for britdisc-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:30:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA09090 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:30:52 +0100 (BST) Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA25857 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:30:51 +0100 (BST) Received: from phidelta.demon.co.uk ([158.152.248.177]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10zSsU-000ECb-0A for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:30:50 +0000 Message-ID: <3q1AUDB0ope3EwBk@phidelta.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 23:29:08 +0100 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk From: Ultim8 Committee <u8c@egroups.com> Subject: Re: Tour format References: <001e01bec2db$91845db0$261f7bc1@pc8.aligrafix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <001e01bec2db$91845db0$261f7bc1@pc8.aligrafix.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 S <pjZRgFWDsQK5ViyP$l4rxVrb6a> Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Michael Beaton <mike.beaton@aligrafix.co.uk> writes >Is there a document around with the tour formats for each of the five tours >on it? > >Mike >(Sharks/ex.LT) yep, http://www.ultim8tour.freeserve.co.uk/tour99/ and follow the links through RULES to PART 6 - Tournament Formats alternatively download the Word97 document: http://www.ultim8tour.freeserve.co.uk/tour99/u899.doc this is the stuff that was circulated to team contacts pre-Tour for ease of reference, here's the text: 6. Tournament Formats. A. Comments For each event, teams are seeded according to the system described in Section [7]. It is expected that 24 teams enter each event, although the systems are readily altered to 20, 28, or 32 teams. Every effort will be made to avoid other (more difficult) numbers of teams. The descriptions below are necessarily brief, and assume a reasonable understanding of tournament formats. The details cannot be absolutely fixed as they always depend on final numbers. Often the description of what happens to teams seeded beyond 12th or 16th is deliberately vague so as to allow us to use the most appropriate system depending on the situation. The formats described below for Tour III and Tour IV may be swapped over. B. Details Tour I. An open format that (in theory) allows any team to finish in any position. (Note that this is different from 1997, and is based on questionnaire replies.) Tour II. The top 8 are in 2 pools of 4 with the top 2 in each progressing to semi-finals on Sunday; and the bottom 2 in each pool dropping to the "middle knockout 8" (5th-12th positions). Teams from 9th down are ideally in 4 pools with the winner of each moving up into the "middle knockout 8", and the other teams all playing off for 13th downwards. Tour III. All teams are initially in groups of 8 that are further divided into 2 pools of 4. The top 4 carry on as normal; but the 5-12 group are in 2 pools of 4 with a single playoff game to finish. This requires some Saturday results to be carried forward to Sunday. Teams below 12th on Sunday playoff for positions using a more straightforward (probably knockout) format. Tour IV. The top 16 start in 4 pools of 4 [A-D]. The winner of each [A1-D1] progress to semis. Teams in 2nd and 3rd, [A2, B2, ..., D3] go into a middle 8 comprising 2 pools of 4 for 5th-12th positions. As usual this also means carrying a result from Saturday. The bottom teams [A4-D4] join those teams starting below 16th to playoff for positions 13th downwards. Tour V. The same format as that described for Tour III. Wayne ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Retter U8C statistician, U8C website manager u8c@egroups.com