What is 7ball? Well, check out this dispatch I wrote, which contains the rules, regulations, scoring, and likely anything you'll need to know about 7ball. This part of the rules contains a much more simplified version of the game, as well as a notable lack of 7s (if you read the main part of the dispatch you'll know what I'm talking about).
ALL matches will be held in Drawkland, at Heptad Honors Arena, which is Drawkland's only dedicated 7ball stadium, and the home stadium for the Drawkland 7s.
Since there's only 14 of us and there's no seeding and I've had some time on my hands, groups have already been determined:
GROUP 1
- Airapyahx 7s
- Anaconda 7s
- Rannoire 7s
- Qoronia 7s
- Ethane 7s
- Courage 7s
- Drawkland 7s
GROUP 2
- Sulsu's 7s
- Hastil 7s
- Dnalkward 7s
- Ficiscia 7s
- Xhayparia 7s
- Pachsum 7s
- Xedanian 7s
SCORINATION WILL BEGIN ON SATURDAY THE 10th. Cutoff times will be at approximately 21:00-21:30 EST, and results will likely be posted within 15 minutes.
As per the usual NS Sports paradigm, the tournament will begin with a Round Robin tournament, with 2 groups of 7 and 1 leg, meaning every team will play every other team once. There are no draws, so the standings will be arranged by Wins, then by Set Diff, Sets Won, HtH points, HtH set diff, then HtH set for.
RPs, also per usual, will be rated on a scale of 1-5 and then applied. There won't be any decay since this isn't a big tournament. Really, I'm not expecting much. If anyone besides me and maybe Xhay RP, I'll be extremely pleasantly surprised.
Best 4 teams from each group will compete in the tournament. It will all be single elimination, except for the losing semifinalists, who will compete in a 3rd-place match. 3rd Place will be decided by a single match, while the Championship will be a Best of 7. Unless a disproportionate amount of RP'ing happens, 3 Matches will be scorinated per night for the Finals.
GROUP STAGE ORDER--Skip a Day in Scorination--
MD1) 2v7, 3v6, 4v5, 1 BYE
MD2) 6v4, 7v3, 1v2, 5 BYE
MD3) 3v1, 4v7, 5v6, 2 BYE
MD4) 7v5, 1v4, 2v3, 6 BYE
MD5) 4v2, 5v1, 6v7, 3 BYE
MD6) 1v6, 2v5, 3v4, 7 BYE
MD7) 5v3, 6v2, 7v1, 4 BYE
TOURNAMENT ORDER
MD8) MATCH 1: #1 Seed, Group 1 VERSUS #4 Seed, Group 2
MATCH 2: #2 Seed, Group 1 VERSUS #3 Seed, Group 2
MATCH 3: #1 Seed, Group 2 VERSUS #4 Seed, Group 1
MATCH 4: #2 Seed, Group 2 VERSUS #3 Seed, Group 1
MD9) MATCH 5: Winner M1 VERSUS Winner M4
MATCH 6: Winner M3 VERSUS Winner M2
MD10) THIRD PLACE: Loser M5 VERSUS Loser M6
CHAMPIONSHIPS MATCHES 1-3: Winner M5 VERSUS Winner M6
MD11) CHAMPIONSHIPS MATCHES 4-6
MD12) Earliest possible End of Championship, MATCH 7 (8, 9).
MD13+) More Championship games as needed. Best of 7.
Any questions, ask on the OOC thread.