What software do you use to run your tournaments?
Traditionally, Tobinâs Excel spreadsheet thatâs hosted on BGG. For this tournament, we used the beta for FFGâs official software. We didnât have any issues until the 5th and 6th rounds of Swiss, where we had about a 10-minute turnaround time in-between rounds instead of a 30-second turnaround; manually re-pairing players who have already played was very clunky and took a bit, despite practicing with the software for a week and a half prior.
3rd place is hardly domination, Mr. Regionals champ. Iâm stuck here with @Squash957 in the âAll the prizes that actually matterâ club.
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Oho, thereâs some official software now, eh? Does it do weighted SoS, by any chance?
Hopefully, uh, hopefully theyâll fix it pairing players whoâve already played soon :).
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Yep, if you havenât seen it yet, you will soon - all Regional hosts were given access, to my knowledge.
Here are the rules changes that we played with to accommodate the software:
- Swiss pairings within score groups will be done top down instead of randomly.
- The first tiebreaker will be head-to-head results; i.e. if you are involved in a two-person tie and you swept that person in Swiss, the tiebreaker ranks you higher.
- The second tiebreaker is strength of schedule. Strength of schedule is no longer calculated by adding up the prestige of each playerâs opponents. Strength of schedule is now calculated by summing each playerâs opponentsâ average score per round and dividing that by the total number of opponents he/she has played. Each playerâs average score per round is calculated by summing the number of prestige earned and dividing by the number of matches the player has played. Gibberish, you say? Bottom line: This strength of schedule calculation avoids the issues caused by opponents dropping mid-tournament and first-round byes penalizing the player that receives them.
- The third tiebreaker is extended strength of schedule. Extended strength of schedule is a new tiebreaker calculated in the same manner as strength of schedule, but it uses each opponentâs strength of schedule score rather than prestige.
- Finally, if players are tied after all three tiebreakers, the tie will be broken randomly.
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Greatly appreciate the kind words. It should be pointed out that the event would not have run nearly as smooth without an amazing group of players. We started at 10:20am and were done at 10:30pm. Six rounds of 65-minute Swiss, an hour and a half dinner break, an 8-player double-elimination cut, and prize distribution in just over twelve hours is outstanding, and it doesnât happen due to the TO alone. 
Was a varied group with a lot of fun decks and players travelling in from as far as Montana and California. It also must be mentioned that we had 39 players and NO DROPS! 
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Awesome job!
Itâs nice to see two tiers of weighted SOS. No more ties!
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WOOOOOOOOO better tiebreakers!
Word.
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