Tournament!!!!!

So this is what i posted on the SWPM forum the evening after the tournament.

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Re: Independant Tournament
« Reply #38 on: September 06, 2008, 11:08:02 PM »
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SO today was the big day!!!!!I picked most of the kids up and had them at the tournament site (my dads pole barn) by 10am. There were 13 total players there ranging from 7 to 18. 3 Girls and 10 Boys.

We had our draft made up of common ships and common cards (donated by many of the awesome people on this awesome forum!!!) Just a side note: most of the kids are homeschooled (as was I) and its a running joke with us all about their powers of listening and understanding being hindered by that fact. The draft was a great idea. It gave them alot of good common ships to base a nice fleet on and many common cards to do the same (everyone got 2 common space ship plates, 2 common ground ship plates, 10 common combat cards, 2 common objectives and a bonus of 1 uncommon combat card and 1 uncommon objective.
I actually have enough left from what was donated and all the extras i myself have, to have another tournament right now!

Anyway... the draft was easy enough (i took Grimunderworld's suggestion "Each player opens the first pack, in this case, set the cards aside for now and just draft ships (or set ships aside and draft cards). Once the packs are opened, each player chooses a ship plate and passes the other to either their right or left. What is passed now belongs to that player. Then, go to the cards. Each player chooses one then passes the opposite direction. Then, another card is picked and passed the same way again. Once all cards and ships are done from the first pack, another pack is opened and the process is started over. I find it is always nice to change directions of passing between packs, so if you passed ships right and cards left with the first pack, the next pack would pass ships left and cards right.")

I had one pack for each person made up (by myself at 2 am last night! i was so excited i couldn't sleep) of 2 common space ship plates, 2 common ground ship plates, 10 common combat cards and 2 common objectives. Well they didn't really get the whole "taking half and passing it to the left" idea.
So we had to work through that.And their was a flurry of speed in the building process with excitement so i had to help alot and get the superglue out! lol

I took Porpmans idea for Swiss rounds "Basically, they work like this: Make a bunch of score cards, enough to give 1 to everyone. They should contain enough space to accommodate the following number of rounds:

# of Players = # of Rounds

2 = 2–3 (best 2 out of 3)
3–8 = 3
9-16 = 4
17–32 = 5
33+ = 6

30-45 minutes per round.
The Score Cards should contain space for the following information for each round:
Opposing Players Name -
Win / Loss -
Tie Breaker Points -
Total Win points -
Total TB Points.

Round 1 - mix up all the score cards and randomly pair up the players using them. If there are an odd number of players, the last remaining player gets a "bye" with a Win and 0 tie breaker points.

-- Scoring - Give each player with a Win 1 point in the Win Points column. Give every player Tie Breaker points based on what they have remaining in play at the end of their game and put it in the Tie Breaker Points column. I suggest 1 point per and 2 points per objective, though there isn't an official rule that covers it so you are free to determine your own Tie Breaker scoring system. In the event of a Tie game (where neither player won), give the Win point to the player with the most Tie Breaker points for that game.

Round 2 - Put all the cards with 1 win point into one pile, and all the cards with 0 into another. Pair the next battles up according to the piles (1's vs 1's, 0's vs 0's), matching up players with the highest Tie Breaker points first and going on down. Give any extra player a "bye" for that round.
NOTE: A player may only receive 1 "bye" for the entire tournament. If the the "bye" would be to the same player, instead give the bye to the next eligible player (which would be someone from the same pile but with the next highest Tie Breaker points).
-- Scoring - Same as above, but total up the Win points and put in the Win Points column, and total up the Tie Breaker points and put in the TB Total column.

Round 3 - Same as above. Break the score cards Win Points down into piles of 2 points, 1 point, 0 points. Pair up as per above.
-- Scoring - Same as above.

Round 4+ - Follow the same as above until you have one undefeated winner." and it worked perfectly... although it took a little while for them to figure out how i was going to determine a winner and what the TB points were for.... again there was room for lots of Homeschooler jokes amongst us all!!

The competition was pretty fierce but the rounds done this way kept everyone in the game for the duration of the whole tournament. Most of the rounds were done by actual wins and not by the time limit... but the Swiss rounds style helped alot with determining a winner.

Everyone got a foil card as a door prize.

I proudly hung Slightlyiffy's poster up and we all took a picture under it (thanks small boy!!)
The prize packages were:
Mega Model (thanks Boba Fan!)
IPUP
O66 Assault Theme Deck

I didn't set up what placing got what prize, rather I allowed the placing winners to pick in order (1st, 2nd and 3rd)
Each was very geeked about what they got to pick!

Oh and my Grandma happens to work at McD's and got a ton of the bobble head figurines for me as freebie handouts too
All in all it was awesome
We ended up finishing right at 3pm when i wanted to.
THANKS ALL for your encouragement, great ideas and contributions.

Pictures will follow as soon as I upload them.Im already planning the next one!

So for all you blog readers out there, as soon as i do have pictures up loaded ill put them on here to see.

I HAD A TON OF FUN
Im not sure what was funner though, watching the kids play or smacking Weadocks upside the head... kind of a toss up i guess.

THanks parents for letting me warp your kids brains further with SW!!
And a special thanks to LW for not completely shutting me down and breaking every Pocketmodel in the world