Game Order

Giving teams a defined order to play their games is very helpful to make sure tournaments run smoothly.

Materials

• Printed game order sheets for each pool - download above
• Large signs with game order near score takers

How it works

• Prepare game orders for different sized pools making sure every team in the pool plays each other once. It's helpful to have two sized pools on one sheet in case a team drops.
  • Traditionally this will be for pools of 7 or 8.
    • If you had a pool of 8 and one team didn’t show up, then you can easily switch it to a pool of 7.
  • Don’t use teams names when setting up the order of the games
    • If something changes - a team drops or you need to switch a team from one pool to another - it’s very easy to do as long as you haven’t used teams names.

• Explain in opening announcements that games will take place in the order on the sheet.
  • It helps for teams to meet everyone in their pool before they start playing games so that they’ll know who they’re looking for later on.
• Print out small sheets and give them to each team so that everyone knows the order of the games.
• The score takers should also have sheets or large signs near them with the order of the games.
  • This is the place where most teams will need to reference the information to report their scores and to figure out who they’re playing next.

Benefits

• Teams know who to play next and when they should have byes. Order sheets reduce the possibility that teams miss a game or play the wrong team.
• Teams can report scores using Pool Name and Seed which makes creating and editing pools and score sheets incredibly easy.
• Entering scores is much easier because it takes team names out of the equation.