- newfound one day –
a tournament in easy pieces
Rob Langridge and Andrew Vaughan
Ultimate Newfoundland and Labrador
- newfound one day –
a tournament in easy pieces
Rob Langridge and Andrew Vaughan
Ultimate Newfoundland and Labrador
so you’re running a tournament…
so you’re running a tournament…
tomorrow
so you’re running a tournament…
tomorrow
… without enough participants
for a tournament
welcome to friday evening
UNL Gender Split 2013
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number of participants up and down in previous years
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tournament not always held/date moved around
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growing touring group – limited weekends
Solution:
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make up reasonably balanced single gender pods
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shuffle the pods in teams
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keep it gender split as long as possible
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be flexible
losing a group of players early afternoon (wedding)
a little last-minute pushback – “I didn’t sign up to play mixed…”
how did
UNL Gender Split 2013
go?
how did
UNL Gender Split 2013
go?
great… despite last-minute signups/cancellations
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flexible space: we could play 2 or 3 games of whatever format

gender split all morning… everybody played with everybody else

a group of players left to attend weddings etc

we delayed lunch…
…played a game of 7 on 7 mixed till the pizza came
feedback was excellent
everybody left really had played with everybody else
everybody left was hungry
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100 x 100yd square
how did
UNL Gender Split 2013
go?
great… despite last-minute signups/cancellations

flexible space: we could play 2 or 3 games of whatever format

gender split all morning… everybody played with everybody else

a group of players left to attend weddings etc

we delayed lunch…
…played a game of 7 on 7 mixed till the pizza came
feedback was excellent… when the pizza arrived
everybody still there really had played with everybody else
everybody still there was hungry
so…
UNL Gender Split 2014
UNL Gender Split 2014
- a pod tournament 
run on Canada* Day (in 2014 a tuesday)

same flexible space: 2 or 3 games of whatever format

gender split all day… everybody played with everybody else

9-5 rental so we ran 7 games:
4 x 45/10min game/break / 60min lunch break / 3 x 45/10min game/break
UNL Gender Split 2014
- a pod tournament 
run on Canada* Day (in 2014 a tuesday)

same flexible space: 2 or 3 games of whatever format

gender split all day… everybody played with everybody else

9-5 rental so we ran 7 games:
4 x 45/10min game/break / 60min lunch break / 3 x 45/10min game/break
womens…
more women so we ran two 5 on 5 games
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4 teams each made up of 2 pods
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8 pods of 4 players or 3 slightly stronger players
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each pod played with every other (7) pod
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a pod played ~half their games on each field
UNL Gender Split 2014
- a pod tournament 
run on Canada* Day (in 2014 a tuesday)

same flexible space: 2 or 3 games of whatever format

gender split all day… everybody played with everybody else

9-5 rental so we ran 7 games:
4 x 45/10min game/break / 60min lunch break / 3 x 45/10min game/break
womens…
more women so we ran two 5 on 5 games

4 teams each made up of 2 pods

8 pods of 4 players or 3 slightly stronger players

each pod played with every other (7) pod

a pod played ~half their games on each field
UNL Gender Split 2014
- a pod tournament 
run on Canada* Day (in 2014 a tuesday)

same flexible space: 2 or 3 games of whatever format

gender split all day… everybody played with everybody else

9-5 rental so we ran 7 games:
4 x 45/10min game/break / 60min lunch break / 3 x 45/10min game/break
open…
one 7 on 7 game

2 teams each made up of 3 pods

6 ~ balanced pods of 4 players or 5 players

7 games combined with 2 pods gives 14 p(od)portunities

a pod plays 2x with one pod and 3x with all other pods
UNL Gender Split 2014
- a pod tournament 
run on Canada* Day (in 2014 a tuesday)

same flexible space: 2 or 3 games of whatever format

gender split all day… everybody played with everybody else

9-5 rental so we ran 7 games:
4 x 45/10min game/break / 60min lunch break / 3 x 45/10min game/break
open…
one 7 on 7 game

2 teams each made up of 3 pods

6 ~ balanced pods of 4 players or 5 players

7 games combined with 2 pods gives 14 p(od)portunities

a pod plays 2x with one pod and 3x with all other pods
¡feedback was excellent!
end of talk as presented
additional
UNL Gender Split 2014
- a pod tournament long day?
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7x45min is pretty much 3+1/2 90min games
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we pulled / one timeout / and had subs
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you play with everybody so the general atmosphere is relaxed
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typical 90min game, score say 15-10 is about half action
25 points x up to 90secs/pull so say 30-35min shuffling the deck
5min half plus say 2-4 timeouts approximately 10min
maybe 85min cap, maybe a little delay at the start
UNL Gender Split 2014
- a pod tournament Only have a single team of say 14 players?
… invite another team in and you have a tournament!
Note:
For n pods choose k per team: # possible teams = n!/(k!(n-k)!
For our men’s side: 1 game n=6 pods choose k=3 per team
6!/(3!(3)! = (6x5x4x3x2x1)/((3x2x1)x(3x2x1) = 20 possible teams
2 teams/game so a full set of games (all matchups) would be 10
each pod plays 4x with and 6x times against every other team
(with 2 games the women’s side is a little more complicated)