(First of a couple of new tourney ideas - as promised.)
I was reading a book and came across a section where the author was talking about a big national "Heads-up" tourney and thought I'd throw it out and see if there was any interest.
It would work like this:
Players are randomly set up in a bracket much like the NCAA's "Big Dance" or a softball tourney. We'd need 8, 16 or 32 players to make this work.
Players would then square off in a series of heads up (one on one) tourneys with the winner advancing to the next level - lose and you're done. Eventually, there'd one one player standing, the big winner.
If we were to start with 16 players, I see 1st getting 8 x buy-ins, 2nd getting 4 x buy-ins and the players who lose the semifinals each getting 2 x buy-ins. Something along those lines.
As far as the structure, we could try to set it up as one long day (for the winner and runner up) with a set structure or we could just let the players set up all thier own matches and play any fomat they want.
Before I get into any serious organizational issues with this concept, I just wanted to see if there was any interest in this concept.....
Please pipe up if you have any thoughts.
I was reading a book and came across a section where the author was talking about a big national "Heads-up" tourney and thought I'd throw it out and see if there was any interest.
It would work like this:
Players are randomly set up in a bracket much like the NCAA's "Big Dance" or a softball tourney. We'd need 8, 16 or 32 players to make this work.
Players would then square off in a series of heads up (one on one) tourneys with the winner advancing to the next level - lose and you're done. Eventually, there'd one one player standing, the big winner.
If we were to start with 16 players, I see 1st getting 8 x buy-ins, 2nd getting 4 x buy-ins and the players who lose the semifinals each getting 2 x buy-ins. Something along those lines.
As far as the structure, we could try to set it up as one long day (for the winner and runner up) with a set structure or we could just let the players set up all thier own matches and play any fomat they want.
Before I get into any serious organizational issues with this concept, I just wanted to see if there was any interest in this concept.....
Please pipe up if you have any thoughts.