On the later rounds you can continue the pattern on which players on the same point group play each other as long as they haven't played each other.īy the way, two types of tournament styles are: Just depends on the scenario of availability of players.īasically that's what the pairing program's algorithm does. So these two players with half points might play against 1-pointers or even 0-pointers in the 2nd round. Example is when one match ended in a draw in the first round. But there are exceptions in which some players can go two rounds with the same color BUT HE/SHE CANNOT GO FOR THREE ROUNDS WITH THE SAME COLOR.Īnother thing to mention is sometimes, you need to pair a player to another player which is not of his point group simply because there are no other player whom he can play in the same group. As much as possible, players should change colors after every round. Round 2 pairings looks like this and again, the ones on the upper part vs the lower parts ON THE SAME POINT GROUP. top seed and 2nd seed will face in the later part so You will just do the pattern again, this time among those on the same point groups: #1-#4 all have one point and hence will play each other while #5-#8 will also do the same. In the next round, probably the top 4 players won and the others lost. Notice the alternating pattern in which #1 is white, #2 is black and #3 is white. The first half of the list, which are players #1 to #4 will play against #5 to #8 respectively: Say there are just 8 participants (for simplicity purposes). Pairings for the first round goes like this and you have the option to reverse colors. Just make an initial list (the strongest player as the #1 seed). If it is just 30 or less participants it's pretty handy.

Now if you are not that tech savvy you can do it manually. Swiss Manager takes care of that - it counts how much ratings a player has earned/lost after the tournament.

There you can even create a local rating exclusively for your own company. I think Swiss Manager is not that user-friendly, but I was able to learn it by myself though. Swiss perfect has a bug in which after it reaches a certain number of participants, it just fails on certain aspects. The best way to do it is using Swiss Manager.

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