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Organising A Knockout.

The main thing to remember with organising a Knock Out is that the number of entrants has to be brought into line with a multiple of two by itself. This is because each round of games halves the number remaining. So for a KO you need any of the following number of players; 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and so on. It is unlikely that you will have exactly one of these numbers so byes or preliminary games will need to introduced. It does not matter which you use to get the numbers right, both work just as well. For instance if you have 40 players you can give 24 byes in the first round. This leaves 16 players to play 8 games which with the 24 byes will bring the number down to 32, or you can have 8 preliminary games which will leave 32 as well. It depends how you want to word it really. In other words take the nearest multiple of 2 away from the number of players and this will either be the byes or the number of preliminary games depending on whether the number is higher or lower than the number of players.

eg 1;- 60 players. 64 - 60 = 4
4 byes with 60 players
playing 32 games with 4 byes mixed in draw.
or

eg 1;- 60 players - 32 leaves 28
28 Preliminary games with 56 players gives 28 winners
60 -56 gives 4 byes + 28 winners = 32 next round

eg 2;- 70 players. 128 - 70 = 58
58 byes with 70 players
playing 64 games with 58 byes mixed in draw.

or
eg 2;- 70 players - 64 leaves 6
6 preliminary games with 12 players gives 6 winners
70 -12 gives 58 byes + 6 winners = 64 next round

Organisers should allow 15 minutes for a game consisting of three legs of 501. Shorter or Greater distances should be calculated at the rate of minus or plus 1 minute per leg per 100 points, i.e. three minutes per leg for 301 or 4 minutes per leg of 401.

Three legs of 301  - average time 9 minutes
Three legs of 401  - average time 12 minutes
Three legs of 501  - average time 15 minutes
Three legs of 601  - average time 18 minutes
Three legs of 701  - average time 21 minutes
Three legs of 1001 - average time 30 minutes

It is vital for any organiser to know roughly how long a tournament is likely to take to be played if it is going to be played in one session. The answer will depend on the standard of those taking part, but the following table is a useful rough guide. The estimated times in the table below will be shortened considerably if following rounds are started before all games in previous rounds are completed.