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Round 1 Summary - No surprises

Authored by: Rog
on Monday, August 11 2014 @ 08:47 pm ACST

Who is deciding the format of the comp anyway? Are they consulting with the competing nations? I thought the format for IC11 worked pretty well. I think there should be more "lightning" format matches early to seed the teams. The short format matches would mean the weaker teams don't get completely destroyed and if they are getting flogged they only have to put up with it for 20-30 tough minutes instead of 80. Everyone here could come up with 10 formats better than the one they are using for this tournament, so here's mine.
Play the first 3 rounds of this tournament in 1 day with games played 10-15 minutes halves. That will sort out the top teams from the bottom ones. Split top 10 from bottom 8, which is about right for the division of teams that are some chance against Top 3, like Fiji & Canada, from those that will get destroyed by top teams.
Division 1 Reseed teams Play 3 further normal length games.
(1v4,2v3,5v7,6v8,9v10), (1v6,2v5,3v9,4v10,7v8), (1v9,2v10,3v7,4v8,5v6)
Final Ladder
Grand Final 1 vs 2, and so on playing off for positions 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10.

Division 2 Two groups of 4. Play the 3 teams in your group normal length games. Then play off top Group A2 vs Top Group B2 for 11/12, and so on 13/14, 15/16, 17/18.

5 days play, everyone starts with a chance of winning the whole thing, quickly seed the teams to make for fairer contests.

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