How to run a 13 team tournament

[Golran]

As the title suggests. We have 13 teams signed up for our mirror of New Trier HS, and 10 packets plus finals. Should we do an abbreviated round robin for 7 rounds then regroup top 4 teams and play a round robin in them for 3 and then a finals? Do something like a card system? Do 10 rounds of round robin and take the top 2 records to a final? Field an exhibition team of freshmen in order to eliminate byes and do two brackets of 7, then rebracket top 2 from each middle 2 from each, and have bottom 3 cross over for 3 more rounds, with a finals if needed? Any suggestions?

[at your pleasure]

The last option seems best to me.

[the return of AHAN]

Normally I'm not a fan of abbreviated round-robins, but if you're going to re-bracket the top 4 anyway, I guess that could work. If it was my tournament, I'd find a 14th team, even if it's a chimera team, and have two pools of 7 teams, giving each team 6 games, plus a crossover, and then you could rebracket, perhaps with playoff pools of 4, 4 and 6 in the bottom one where they would simply play the 3 teams from the other pool like you suggested.


EDIT: beaten by the less verbose Mr. Graebner.

[Auks Ran Ova]

The last option is by far the best.

[Joe Romersa]

http://hsquizbowl.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 71#p167671
problem solved.

[Golran]

I had actually counted that drop in the 13, but now Diamond Bar is dropping 1 as well, and 12 is such a nice number for 10 packets + finals.

[jonpin]

The last option is by far the best.

Last option is better than the other options, but I'd prefer to re-bracket 3/2/2 rather than 2/2/3.

[Auks Ran Ova]

The last option is by far the best.

Last option is better than the other options, but I'd prefer to re-bracket 3/2/2 rather than 2/2/3.

Good point!