DRAFT game schedules for the girls‘ and boys‘ divisions are now online.
PLEASE look them over in detail and let me know if you see any errors or things that look off. Anyone that finds something medium to large receives a really, really big handshake from yours truly, a very tired tournament scheduler (Josh).
I will be taking comments on the schedules until Wednesday, 5/13 at 6pm.
Written explanations of the schedules:
Girls’ Division Saturday: 13 teams are spread across 3 pools of 3 and one pool of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool during pool play and teams are re-ranked. The 1-seeds are paired off and play one game against each other for placement in Sunday’s champs bracket. The 2 seeds play all the 3 seeds. The winners of those 4 games become the 2 seeds and the losers become the 3 seeds. (The team that finished 4th in the pool of four doesn’t have a crossover game.)
Girls’ Division Sunday: The top two teams from each of the four pools play in a standard 8-team elimination bracket. The bottom team from each pool (bottom two from the pool of 4) will play in a consolation round robin schedules on Saturday evening based on input from those 5 teams.
Boys A Division Saturday: 8 teams are spread across 2 pools of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool and is then reranked. The top three teams in the two pools are done after pool play. The bottom team in each pool plays one crossover game.
Boys B Division Saturday: 12 teams are spread across 3 pools of 4. Everyone plays everyone in their pool and is then reranked.
Crossovers on Saturday: The four top teams from the B Division are paired off and play for the chance to play the bottom teams from the two A division pools. The winners of those games become the 4th seeds in the two A division pools.The 2 seeds from the B division play all the 3 seeds from the B division. The winners of those 4 games become the 2 seeds and the losers become the 3 seeds.
Boys A Division Sunday: The 8 teams in the A division play in a standard 8-team elimination bracket. All teams play 3 games.
Boys B Division Sunday: A 12-team elimination bracket with the top 4 teams getting a bye to the quarters. All teams play at least 3 games.
Things to keep in mind:
1) ANY boys team has the chance to win the A or B division.
2) I did everything I could to maximize the number of quality games while minimizing the chance of repeating an opponent.
3) I did everything I could to minimize the amount of moving teams have to do.
4) I thought starting early and ending early on Sunday was preferable to starting late and ending late. (Lots of teams have to travel tremendous distances on Sunday.)
5) All teams will play 3 or 4 games on Saturday and 3 on Sunday.
6) The schedules are NOT LOCKED UNTIL TOMORROW NIGHT. Please, please, please look them over in detail and let me know if you see any issues. After 7 hours of staring at pools and brackets and doing battle with various online systems, I am tired and probably made some errors. I GREATLY appreciate all the help I can get!
The best way to reach me is via email at josh@pvinvite.org.