TD
Keywords: Tournament
TD is an often encountered acronym for Tournament Director.
There is the Sensei's Tournament Library, but that is specially designed for organising the (European) Go Congress.
This Page can become a tournament organiser's path.
Table of contents |
Why Tournaments
Kinds of Tournaments
(club, online, ranking, price, ...)
Preparations
(ads, info, room, prices, people helping, ...)
Material
Where to get boards, stones, clocks
Format
(McMahon, Swiss, Knockout, ... can also contain formats of pro tournaments as ideas)
Rules
Time
- Mostly used is Absolute Timing ('Sudden Death') for blitz and normal games and
- Absolute Timing plus Canadian Timing (for Overtime / Byoyomi); see also progressive overtime (10-20-30-.. stones in 5 minutes) and Total Average Timing
- The path page Time Systems collects more ideas for time keeping in tournaments and other contests.
Determine the Winner(s)
- strongest participant
- most wins
- won games percentage
Prizes for the Winner(s)
After the Tournament
(report, results, rating lists, ...)
- Some examples for Tournament reports
Infos to collect
- Ing-clock description, options and manual
search for all page titles containing 'tournament' and 'time' and 'clock' and 'timer' and 'tourney' and 'competition' and 'contest' (and 'match')
- The page Tournament contains some links for the path.
Discussion, Q&A
- Tournament Directing (discussion)
See also: Tournament Directing Software.