Thought on reformatting pool determination for tournaments: With the exception of WC where the pools are based on: ranking, region, and randomization pools are determined one of two ways: 1. (old way) set it up randomly where the organizer will randomly do things like picks names out of a hat. 2. Pools are based 100% on snaking the rankings (which works, sometimes doesnt depending on the time of year) What people should be doing instead (and this would work gloriously for all regionals) is let the captains decide where they want their teams to be placed. How would this work? Simply have a group whatever chat kids use these days with all captains and the TD available. Then put people on the clock for 2 minutes or whatever. Going in order, you get to decide which pool your teams enters. This will allow a lot of variability and add the excitement the current system lacks. For example, a 1 and 2 seed could play in the pool round if the 2nd seed feels up to the challenge. It would also create closer and better games in the pool round. Why? Because the tier 2 and tier 3 teams would match themselves up against the best possible odds. It would also give being upper/lower tier 2/3/etc more meaning since you can enter a pool of 2 teams if you are a 2nd tier team etc. This would make pool rounds less about just stomping weaker teams, since the weaker teams would have a little bit of an edge in deciding what team they want to play. It would also allow grudge matches if teams were feeling up to the challenge. It would also prevent things like Oh yay, I get to play A&M in pool play for the 3rd tournament in a row and prevent teams like UT and TxST, Loyola and Tulane from ending up together since they play each other so often anyways. At the worst, teams just follow the snake pattern all the way down and the pool are set up in the same way they would be to begin with making the whole thing a wash. However, I see a lot of potential in this. Thoughts?
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:36:20 +0000
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