MrCatPants
Full House
My crew just finished our tournament 'season' which gives me a little more freedom on some of my game scheduling, and accordingly next time I host a tourney I wanted to do a new event. Was looking for some feedback on the idea below (if this is uber dumb) or experience with running something similar. Thought behind it is most people really don't get to experience much tournament heads up play and so this would allow that in spades.
Concept: A heads up tournament similar to the world cup or college football. Depending on number of runners, divide players into equal numbers of divisions/groups/pools and have them each play heads up against each other round robin style in short (30-40 minute) heads up matches.
Keep track of "wins" on each switch, and at the end of the round Robin the top 4 players (or top 8 if it's very well attended) go to a playoff, allowing the rest of the group to start up a cash game.
Ways to keep it spicy: run a Calcutta or fantasy draft for the playoff, do a small portion of the prize pool payable to the division that produced the first place player to get people rooting for each other.
Thoughts on this? Could it work with some tweaks? Or would it suck/cause disaster that I'm not seeing?
Concept: A heads up tournament similar to the world cup or college football. Depending on number of runners, divide players into equal numbers of divisions/groups/pools and have them each play heads up against each other round robin style in short (30-40 minute) heads up matches.
Keep track of "wins" on each switch, and at the end of the round Robin the top 4 players (or top 8 if it's very well attended) go to a playoff, allowing the rest of the group to start up a cash game.
Ways to keep it spicy: run a Calcutta or fantasy draft for the playoff, do a small portion of the prize pool payable to the division that produced the first place player to get people rooting for each other.
Thoughts on this? Could it work with some tweaks? Or would it suck/cause disaster that I'm not seeing?