EPTOn August 04 2010 16:35 MeistR wrote:
Okay, so it's been established that giving a bye is the way to go, regardless of the number of entrants. But who do you give the byes to?
Seeding a 512 player tournament is no easy task. On what basis would you seed them? I could understand seeding players based on their performance in a previous competition of the same tournament (e.g. seeding them for cup #23 based on their cup #22 performance). Unfortunately, I'm working with a first-time tournament.
Okay, so it's been established that giving a bye is the way to go, regardless of the number of entrants. But who do you give the byes to?
Seeding a 512 player tournament is no easy task. On what basis would you seed them? I could understand seeding players based on their performance in a previous competition of the same tournament (e.g. seeding them for cup #23 based on their cup #22 performance). Unfortunately, I'm working with a first-time tournament.
Obviously, expecting to seed 512 players with almost nothing to go off of, or even if you did, is way too time consuming to do by hand. You could just seed 50 players and random the rest. With the SC2 ladder divisions, you could use the ladder for a base to start off of for seeding. You could go about just seeding just the diamond ranked players, since you know they'll most likely have a decent bit of skill to get into diamond.
On August 04 2010 17:07 MeistR wrote: Do you know of any computer programs (other than a TI-89, lol) that quickly and randomly assigns numbers?
For random numbers, http://www.random.org/ is such an awesome site.
