Where or how can I make/find a template for a 12 team tournament?

Question

I'm holding a tournament and I need to make a template for it. I had to pick a sport so I picked volleyball (fav sport)

Answer 1

Here are a bunch of sports web templates - http://www.webmaster-templates.net/categ...

Just create a table for the matches.

HTH

Answer 2

For a twelve team tournament, it is best to split up the 12 teams into three pools of four teams. Then for each pool, run a round-robin. Of course, to do this, you will need 3 courts on which to play.

See enclosed below for the round-robin tournament schedule.

At the end of the round robin, the top two teams from each pool move on to the play-offs. (The bottom two teams head to the nearest bar.)

For the six teams making it to the playoffs, the two teams with the best record overall are given byes in the first round of playoffs, (win-loss ties are broken by number of points scored less number of points given up), and the remaining four teams do a quarter-final play-off. The two winners now play the two teams that had byes in a semi-final play-off. The ultimate two winners now play each other in the championship (finals).

4-team Round Robin Schedule

Round #1

1 vs 4

2 vs 3

Round #2

1 vs 3

4 vs 2

Round #3

1 vs 2

3 vs 4

Play-off schedule

Quarter-finals

#1 Seed vs *bye*

#2 Seed vs *bye*

#3 Seed vs #6 Seed

#4 Seed vs #5 Seed

Semi-finals

#1 Seed vs winner of #4 vs #5

#2 Seed vs winner of #3 vs #6

Feel free to follow-up with specific questions. I'd be happy to answer them.

Answer 3

Break up the teams into 2 pools of 6 teams. Each team plays 4 matches of 2 games (8 games total) in pool play, therefore not every team will play each other, thats OK. Take the top 2 teams from each pool and they make the playoffs. Some teams may have identical records, so you may have to go by their head to head record, or have a  single "play in" game to determine who goes to the playoffs if the teams split head to head. Run playoff games as best of 3.

This format takes about 8 hours to run, so if you don't have enough time, this won't work for you.

Answer 4

VB Socrates has a good answer.  Break them into groups of 4 if possible.  If you tried to play a 12 team round robin, you would need 66 matches.  Or about 6 days on 1 court.

Answer 5

http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/badmint...

Answer 6

I agree with all above answers, and will add that you might want to visit your local library to decide how many groups you want to break into, which is heavily dependent on how many courts you have, how many refs you can get for each time window (you might have two refs available for one night, and eight refs the next evening).