TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS
The following information is for you to use to help you run a smoother and better tournament
“BYE CHARTS” download this document in pdf format
How to use the Bye Charts Below.
“Under NO Circumstances should you do a random draw to place “BYE” Spots”
There is a method to the Madness to keep the boards as even and as fair as possible!
READ ON!!
1st, we need to know how many people are to be in the tournament. If you see that you have more than 16 players, you will use a 32 Board. If only 24 people show up to play, you need to know where to put the “Bye’s” or (TBA’s if you are waiting for more players). So, with a 32 Board and only 24 players, how many “Bye’s” do you have? 32 - 24 = 8, you have 8 “Bye’s”. Go to the 32 Man Board Bye Chart and count from the left to the right 8 places. Write those number down, and go to your tournament board and start entering “BYE” starting with the numbers from the left to the right. In this case you would put “BYE” in players spots # 32 - 16 - 24 - 8 - 28 - 12 - 20 & 4. (in that order).
Now, if you were using a deck of cards or pieces of paper with numbers on them to draw players into spots on the board, you would remove the Cards or pieces of paper with the numbers for the “BYE” (32 - 16 - 24 - 8 - 28 - 12 - 20 & 4.).
There are a number of ways to place players on the tournament board, we will examine only 2 of those ways.
1) Write every players name on a piece of paper (very time consuming), and put it into the hat, once done with this you will have someone pull a name out one at a time. The first name will be placed at the top of the chart in the first blank spot. The second name will be placed in the next blank spot going down the chart. Do this for everyone until all names have been drawn. This gives you a very fair draw done at random.
2) In the beginning you should have written down everyone’s name as they came in and marked them paid for the event. Having a complete list of names in front of you will make things very easy. Now, using the Deck of Cards or the pieces of paper with numbers on them, you will draw numbers at random again (remember to remove the bye numbers as explained above) and place a number by the first name on your list and continue to do so until all names have a number by them.
· When all names have a number assigned to them, you will now find that number on the tournament chart and put that players name in that spot.

How to handle a late players “Bye-In”
This task is very simple, you will place the incoming players on the chart according to the reverse order of the “Bye List”, for example: above we used the bye’s of 32 - 16 - 24 - 8 - 28 - 12 - 20 & 4, in that order. You will now “BYE BACK” in reverse order, 4 - 20 - 12 - 28 - 8 - 24 - 16 & 32, the first player going into spot #4 and the second player going into spot #20 and so-on until no more players come in or the tournament has played past those spots and they are no longer available.

If you have any questions or difficulties using this information, please let me know, this needs to be as easy as possible to use for everyone, there are a lot of people who have either never run a tournament or are still new to running a tournament and need some help so they can run a very successful event.

8 Man Board:
8 - 4 - 6 - 2

16 Man Board:
16 - 8 - 12 - 4 - 14 - 6 - 10 - 2

32 Man Board:
32 - 16 - 24 - 8 - 28 - 12 - 20 - 4 - 30 - 14 - 22 - 6 - 26 - 10 - 18 - 2

64 Man Board:
64 - 32 - 48 - 16 - 56 - 24 - 40 - 8 - 60 - 28 – 44
12 - 52 - 20 - 36 - 4 - 62 – 30 - 46 - 14 - 54 – 22
38 - 6 - 58 - 26 - 42 - 10 - 50 - 18 - 34 - 2

128 Man Board:
128 - 64 - 96 - 32 - 112 - 48 - 80 - 16 - 120 - 56 - 88 - 24 - 104 - 40 - 72 - 8
124 - 60 - 92 - 28 - 108 - 44 - 76 - 12 - 116 - 52 - 84 - 20 - 100 - 36 - 68 - 4
126 – 62 - 94 - 30 - 110 - 46 – 78 - 14 - 118 - 54 - 86 - 22 - 102 - 38 - 70
6 - 122 - 58 - 90 - 26 - 106 - 42 - 74 - 10 - 114 - 50 - 82 - 18 - 98 - 34 - 66 - 2

Note: for 33-64 players you could use 2-32 man boards or 1-64 board.
For 65-128 players you could use 4-32 boards, or 2-64 boards.
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