Post by Giraffe72 on Feb 9, 2017 15:58:52 GMT -5
Hi All,
I've had an idea for a tournament I'd like to run, an FA Cup style knockout tournament played in pairs. The idea would be to get 32 or 64 players which I would separate in to two pots based on WGR - the top half in one pot and the bottom half in the other. I would then randomly draw a player from each pot to make up the teams of two, might even record the process and upload it on here (and open myself to ridicule in the process!). You could give yourself (in your pairs) a team name or just be Team X, up to you.
For the tournament I would then do a Cup draw (probably recorded again) and draw out the match ups with a home team and an away team. The matches would be played over one round with the total score for each team deciding the result (not matchplay), but here's the kicker; the venue for each match will be chosen by the home team. Before the tournament starts I will require each team to provide me with a course that will be designated as their home venue (ground sharing is allowed!), if you get drawn at home that's where you would play, if you're away you'll go to your opponent's course. You would need to choose wisely between you and try to pick a course which plays to your strengths! In the event of a draw you would have a replay at the away team's course.
Haven't decided if your venue will change for each round or if that's your course for the whole tournament, thoughts would be appreciated...
Every round would be randomly drawn, the semi finals and final would be played over two rounds at Wembley neutral courses of my choosing, unless by some miracle I'm still in it in which case I'll get somebody else to choose. That's if I play, I haven't decided on that yet either.
I would set up all the Tours and inform you where to find them and you'd get a week to play, and probably keep the results on a spreadsheet with a link on the home page, or just put it in here, haven't decided. Very much a work in progress as you can tell!
Players of all skill levels are welcome. Anybody interested post on here, and we'll see if it goes anywhere. For now all I require is your name, I'll get the rest of the info from the TGCT player list