It's time for a new Tournament...Ratings Bash I

Joachim · #1 November 26th, 2003, 01:48 AM

Me Too

Cant play too many games.....

Slynky · #2 November 26th, 2003, 04:45 AM

When someone gets a chance could you explain how seeding works? I don't watch tennis

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I thought 1-8 played 9-16 (1 vs 9, 2 vs 10, etc.).

geoschmo · #3 November 26th, 2003, 05:02 AM

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Originally posted by Slynky:
When someone gets a chance could you explain how seeding works? I don't watch tennis .

I thought 1-8 played 9-16 (1 vs 9, 2 vs 10, etc.).

I based it off the NCAA basketball bracket, but I suppose tennis is handled the same way. The idea is that you reward the better players performance leading up to the tourney by giving them the "easiest road" into the final game. So the best player plays the worst player in the tourney. The second best plays the 2nd from the bottom, etc. The bracket is arranged to that at each round assuming the "right player" wins you will always have the best player playing the worst player left. So in round 2 you have 1 playing 8, round three you have 1 playing 4. Of course the better ranked player does not always win. You still have to play the games.

geoschmo · #4 November 26th, 2003, 05:26 AM

Well the good news is this seems to be getting a lot of response. The bad news unfortunatly is that this means it's likely that some of the alternates may end up disapointed. Myself included.

Lord Chane responded a couple of hours before Gozguy, so he snagged the 16th seed for the moment and Gozguy is now 1st alternate. However, there are still four people that haven't responded so Gozguy still has a chance of making it in I think.

BBegemott · #5 November 26th, 2003, 10:14 AM

Oh, rated tourney! I'm in of course!

Alneyan · #6 November 26th, 2003, 01:47 PM

Gandalf had to leave (at least for a while) if I remember correctly. So you still have a chance Geo to make it.

Grazic, that is exactly what I thought when I saw the bracket. The next thing I noticed was that Asmama is just above, and Slynky and Rex just below. Do you believe any of us stand a chance against one of them?

geoschmo · #7 November 26th, 2003, 04:06 PM

I suppose if there is enough interest in this from the alternates and other unranked players I could do a second tournament bracket for those people. Any opinions?