- newfound one day – a tournament in easy pieces rob langridge and andrew vaughan ultimate...

- newfound one day – a tournament in easy pieces

Rob Langridge and Andrew Vaughan

Ultimate Newfoundland and Labrador

so you’re running a tournament…

so you’re running a tournament…tomorrow

so you’re running a tournament…tomorrow

… without enough participantsfor a tournament

welcome to friday eveningUNL Gender Split 2013

number of participants up and down in previous years tournament not always held/date moved around growing touring group – limited weekends

Solution: make up reasonably balanced single gender pods shuffle the pods in teams keep it gender split as long as possible be flexible

losing a group of players early afternoon (wedding)

a little last-minute pushback – “I didn’t sign up to play mixed…”

how didUNL Gender Split 2013

go?


go?great… despite last-minute signups/cancellationsflexible space: we could play 2 or 3 games of whatever formatgender split all morning… everybody played with everybody elsea group of players left to attend weddings etcwe delayed lunch… …played a game of 7 on 7 mixed till the pizza came

feedback was excellent

everybody left really had played with everybody else

everybody left was hungry

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go?great… despite last-minute signups/cancellationsflexible space: we could play 2 or 3 games of whatever formatgender split all morning… everybody played with everybody elsea group of players left to attend weddings etcwe delayed lunch… …played a game of 7 on 7 mixed till the pizza came

feedback was excellent… when the pizza arrived

everybody still there really had played with everybody else

everybody still there was hungry

so…UNL Gender Split 2014

UNL Gender Split 2014- a pod tournament -

run on Canada* Day (in 2014 a tuesday) same flexible space: 2 or 3 games of whatever format gender split all day… everybody played with everybody else 9-5 rental so we ran 7 games:

4 x 45/10min game/break / 60min lunch break / 3 x 45/10min game/break




womens… more women so we ran two 5 on 5 games 4 teams each made up of 2 pods 8 pods of 4 players or 3 slightly stronger players each pod played with every other (7) pod a pod played ~half their games on each field




open… one 7 on 7 game 2 teams each made up of 3 pods 6 ~ balanced pods of 4 players or 5 players 7 games combined with 2 pods gives 14 p(od)portunities a pod plays 2x with one pod and 3x with all other pods

¡feedback was excellent!

end of talk as presented

additional


long day? 7x45min is pretty much 3+1/2 90min gameswe pulled / one timeout / and had subsyou play with everybody so the general atmosphere is relaxed

typical 90min game, score say 15-10 is about half action 25 points x up to 90secs/pull so say 30-35min shuffling the deck

5min half plus say 2-4 timeouts approximately 10min

maybe 85min cap, maybe a little delay at the start


Only have a single team of say 14 players?

… invite another team in and you have a tournament!

Note:

For n pods choose k per team: # possible teams = n!/(k!(n-k)!

For our men’s side: 1 game n=6 pods choose k=3 per team

6!/(3!(3)! = (6x5x4x3x2x1)/((3x2x1)x(3x2x1) = 20 possible teams

2 teams/game so a full set of games (all matchups) would be 10 each pod plays 4x with and 6x times against every other

team

(with 2 games the women’s side is a little more complicated)

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