Horizon Online
Domino Tournaments
Scheduling Guidelines
The
individual scores for the previous tournament shall be used to rank the players.
(Players who did not participate in the previous tournament shall be placed at
the bottom of the ranking list). The
schedule shall be prepared from this ranking list as follows:
(1) Schedule for Round 1 & Round 2
Pairing
shall be done as follows:
#1
vs #2
#3
vs #4
#5
vs # 6, and so on.....
(2) Schedule for Round 3 & Round 4
The
list will be divided into 2 equal parts and the top have of the list shall be
paired with the bottom half of the list.
For example, if there are 20 registered players, the pairing shall be
done as follows:
#1
vs #11
#2
vs #12
#3
vs #13, and so on.....
(3) Schedule for Round 5 & Round 6
Starting
from the top of the list, odd players will be scheduled to play against odd
payers and even players scheduled to play against even players as follows:
#1
vs #3
#5
vs #7
#2
vs #4
#6
vs #8, and so on......
(4) Schedule for Round 7 & Round 8
The
top player on the list shall be scheduled to play with the bottom player on the
list. The #2 player will be scheduled to play with the second-to-last player
and so on. For example, if there are 20 players registered to play, the pairing
shall be done as follows:
#1
vs #20
#2
vs #19
#3
vs #18 and so on.....
(5) Players in the same team
Under
no circumstances shall players in the same team (or related or associated
teams) be scheduled to play against each other. The schedule under Guidelines
(1) to (4) above shall be adjusted as necessary to satisfy this guideline.
(6) Playing another player more than once
Under
no circumstances shall a player be scheduled to play another player more than
once. The schedule under Guidelines (1) to (4) above shall be adjusted as
necessary to satisfy this guideline.
(7) Odd number of teams (& odd
numbers of total players) registered
(a)
One player shall be given a bye in each round. This bye shall be given as
follows:
Round
1: To the #6 ranked player
Round
2: To the #12 ranked player
Round
3: To the #18 ranked player
Round
4: To the #24 ranked player
(b)
The above players shall be scheduled to play in two additional rounds known as Bye Round 1 and Bye Round 2
and the players shall be paired as follows:
#6
vs #18
#12
vs #24
Adjustments
to the pairing shall be made as necessary to satisfy Guidelines (5) and (6)
above.
End
of Scheduling Guidelines