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How do ranking tournaments usually work?

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Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
November 08 2010 01:58 GMT
#1
Well, my RTS Club at High School has been operating for roughly a month now, and the members have decided that we should hold a ranking tournament on November 22. I've thought about doing a traditional double elimination ro32 bracket, but that only gives an general picture of skill levels.

Since a lot of people here know a lot about proteams or have organized teams in the past, how should I go about hosting a ranking tournament?


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Zeroes
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1102 Posts
November 08 2010 02:01 GMT
#2
They usually assign points on how far you make it like making it to the ro8 you get one points and to the ro 4 you get 2 and so on
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Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
November 08 2010 02:13 GMT
#3
No idea what you mean by a ranking tournament. Do you mean a tournament based on your rank? Meaning you're assigned ranks, or are seeded? Or do you mean that you're having a tournament where you will get seeded for future tournaments.
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Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
November 08 2010 02:16 GMT
#4
On November 08 2010 11:13 vica wrote:
No idea what you mean by a ranking tournament. Do you mean a tournament based on your rank? Meaning you're assigned ranks, or are seeded? Or do you mean that you're having a tournament where you will get seeded for future tournaments.

The second option... people want to know where they are in terms of skill level, and I want to know because I'm not going to give board positions to people who do not know how to play at all.
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RyuChus
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada442 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-08 02:55:25
November 08 2010 02:25 GMT
#5
People win points every time they win in your tournament, and people lose points whenever they lose games. The points can't go past 0. That could be a way to do it? So like best of 3. Someone wins 2-0 Winner +20 points. Loser -10 points. Maybe something like that?

EDIT: You could also do a king of the hill thing. Sort of like... Let's say. You have 8 people in your club. That means there's the D Players, C Players, B, A. So on. So all of you will play games, and if you win, you move up a spot, if you lose, you move down a spot. You can play like, 6 games. Then wherever you are on the hill, or ladder or whatever, that is your ranking.
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Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
November 08 2010 02:33 GMT
#6
Anyone who actually knows how clans do this wanna answer?
sporkify
Profile Joined April 2009
United States31 Posts
November 08 2010 02:35 GMT
#7
You could do it like band/orchestra. That system, you can challenge people above you (once per week/month/whenever, limited space above you...say, +4 ranks or so...) If challenge is successful, they swap places. (do bo3s or something like that) This way, you could hold a tournament, figure out approximate skill levels, and over the next few weeks, the rankings will settle themselves out.
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
November 08 2010 05:10 GMT
#8
Believe me. For a ranking tournament, a swiss tournament is the best way to go. Its BY FAR the best for ranking with the least amount of games played.
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Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
November 08 2010 05:14 GMT
#9
On November 08 2010 14:10 ReketSomething wrote:
Believe me. For a ranking tournament, a swiss tournament is the best way to go. Its BY FAR the best for ranking with the least amount of games played.

What exactly is a swiss tournament?
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swanized
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada2480 Posts
November 08 2010 05:22 GMT
#10
On November 08 2010 14:14 Loser777 wrote:
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On November 08 2010 14:10 ReketSomething wrote:
Believe me. For a ranking tournament, a swiss tournament is the best way to go. Its BY FAR the best for ranking with the least amount of games played.

What exactly is a swiss tournament?


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FyRe_DragOn
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada2056 Posts
November 08 2010 05:55 GMT
#11
round robin 2nded
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Cr4zyH0r5e
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Peru1308 Posts
November 08 2010 06:04 GMT
#12
Yeah Round-Robin / league format seems to be that makes the most sense to me... If you get ties in the middle ranks then you can base your decision from their previous encounter or have them play one more game against each other one more time FTW.
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Loser777
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
1931 Posts
November 08 2010 06:09 GMT
#13
I think there will be roughly 20 participants in this ranking tournament, and in that case a pure round robin would require ~190 games, which is pretty unrealistic (I plan to do the entire ranking over a day). Any ideas on how to abridge the format of the tournament (maybe do a half-round robin)?
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