Tourney Adjusting Tables (1 Viewer)

[ruskba]

I hosted my first tourney a month or so ago, and had a weird issue I wasn't sure how to deal with. I had 13 people confirmed to play with a start time of 5:30, and I knew two would be late. Come 5:30, there were only 9 of us, and I wanted to get started but wasn't keen on starting one table and shifting to two tables once two more people showed up. I ended up delaying the start a bit and had some last minute cancellations (naturally) and we played a 10 handed tourney at one table the whole night, so it was fine.

So my question: if you're expecting to have just enough people to need two tables, but not enough for two at the start, do you start at one and shift to two once enough show up? Play two short handed tables?

Easy answer is to make more friends and have them show up on time, but what can ya do.

 

[krafticus]

If I KNOW people are coming, you can start 2 short handed tables. When they arrive, the tables will balance out.

I would hate to start moving people from table 1 (where everyone was) to a second table with all of the late people.

 

[CraigT78]

As @krafticus said - if I know the players are coming (confirmed via text) I start two tables. If I have interested players but they are iffy, I play one and break to two when needed. Now that I have expanded my player list to 80+, I rarely have this problem. Encourage your players to bring a friend and your game will fill up before you know it!