Tournament Time for Windows Help File

>> Creating Multi-Level Tournaments

To create a Multi-Level Tournament in Tournament Time, you must create a separate division for each level of the tournament.

The basic design of a multi-level tournament is like several single-elimination tournaments, where the loser of each game in the first tournament is advanced into one of the lower (and smaller) consolation tournaments. This downward advancement can continue until there are just two teams in the final bracket.

The benefits of multi-level tournaments are:

All teams get about the same number of games
The teams playing in the consolation tournaments have about the same capability.
As the rounds progress, more games can be played simultaneously on different fields. This can be more exciting for spectators (particularly if thier favorite team leaves the primary bracket early)
It can (with enough fields available) still complete in about the same time that a single elimination tournament takes, since games can still be played simultaneously, even as the primary bracket is playing its final rounds.

Some disadvantages are:

Third and subsequent team placements are not clearly established. (First and Second place are clearly the winner and loser of the final game of the first bracket, but the winner of the final game any of the consolation brackets may have lost just one game each.)
Since more games are played, many more officials and fields are needed to finish the tournament over a weekend.
Setting up the tournament in Tournament Time takes more effort, since you must create a division for each level.

Follow these steps to create a Multi-Level Tournament:

Create a Single Elimination tournament with all your teams in it. ( see Creating A Schedule ).
Generate your single elimination tournament (this is the Primary Bracket, and view it in the previewer, or print the bracket out for reference. (For reference, we'll name this "My Tournament - Primary")
    This schedule will be the Master Schedule for all the consolation brackets in the tournament.

Create another Single Elimination tournament and name it something like "My Tournament - Round A1".
    On step 3, you have to define the teams. Click the Advance Team from Other Tournament button, ( Tournament Time will prompt you to select a master schedule the first time you click this button.. Select the schedule you created in step 2 above.)


    Select the losing teams from the appropriate round then click "OK" to advance those teams into this schedule.


    Complete the wizard to generate this consolation round bracket.

Once you are satisfied with this consolation round bracket, add it to the master so that subsequent consolation rounds will coordinate with its games.

Repeat steps 3 & 4 for each subsequent round (not including the final round) of the Primary Bracket, creating a division, generating a schedule and adding it to the master Primary Bracket. These are the "A Level" consolation brackets.

Repeat steps 3 & 4 for each round of each of the consolation brackets, naming them something like "My Tournament - Round B1", etc.

If you start with 8 teams, your "Primary Bracket" will have 3 rounds, 4 games in the first round, 2 in the second round, and 1 in the third. This will generate 2 A-Level Consolation Brackets (one for each round, except the final):

If you want to continue the Multi-Level tournament, you can now create another division for the "B Level" consolation bracket. These contain games between the losing teams from all but the final round in the "A Level" consolation brackets. In this example, only "Round A1" has more than one round, so we only end up with "Round B1":

Now that there is only one loser in this bracket, there is no need to generate another level of consolation brackets. If we had started with more than 8 teams, however, we could generate "C Level" consolation brackets.

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