eighteenspikes
Smash Master
Hi guys,
As a tourney host, I know one of the most pivotal factors to a smooth tournament is preparation. It's really rough to get caught up drawing out pools or seeding pools into a bracket
So, what I did was create a few handy little files that should make those much less painful than they tend to be, and I'd like to share them with my fellow hosts.
http://handsomejett.com/pools.xls
Here's a spreadsheet that, when printed fit to a page without margins, looks a bit like this:
Print a couple, cut in half, number them off, and you're ready to draw names in. There's shading to make it easier to see what line you're on, and two extra columns -- one to write down the total Win/Loss ratio of a player, and another on the left (next to the name, as opposed to across the entire sheet) to write down what seed the player is.
So, now that you have your pools all done, now what? Rotating pools is always annoying, and as far as I know, there aren't any bracket programs that will actually rotate pools into a seeded bracket for you. So, I made up these two files:
http://handsomejett.com/winnersbracket.PNG
http://handsomejett.com/losersbracket.PNG
They're too big and have too much info to just plop a thumbnail into here, so just go ahead and click on em. It's a two-sheet bracket, with a full list of what player goes where, depending on what pool they were in and where they placed. I kept pools 1-4 and 5-8 together, because it allows you to make a 16 player/team bracket out of 4 pools, and because an 8 pool rotation will provide a negligibly smaller statistical chance of facing someone in bracket that you already played in pools.
Anyways, the two files have the exact same dimensions and spacing. So, if you print each sheet to fit a page without margins, you can use the seed designations to draw the first round of brackets, and then cover them up by overlapping the 2nd sheet on top. The end result is a nifty little double elimination bracket, ready for use!
That is, of course, if you find yourself needing to run a bracket on paper. If you have a computer handy with a tournament program installed, you can just use the pool designations on the Winner's Bracket for reference, and create your perfectly seeded bracket by hand
I hope that these will find some good use among the community
As a tourney host, I know one of the most pivotal factors to a smooth tournament is preparation. It's really rough to get caught up drawing out pools or seeding pools into a bracket
So, what I did was create a few handy little files that should make those much less painful than they tend to be, and I'd like to share them with my fellow hosts. http://handsomejett.com/pools.xls
Here's a spreadsheet that, when printed fit to a page without margins, looks a bit like this:
Print a couple, cut in half, number them off, and you're ready to draw names in. There's shading to make it easier to see what line you're on, and two extra columns -- one to write down the total Win/Loss ratio of a player, and another on the left (next to the name, as opposed to across the entire sheet) to write down what seed the player is.
So, now that you have your pools all done, now what? Rotating pools is always annoying, and as far as I know, there aren't any bracket programs that will actually rotate pools into a seeded bracket for you. So, I made up these two files:
http://handsomejett.com/winnersbracket.PNG
http://handsomejett.com/losersbracket.PNG
They're too big and have too much info to just plop a thumbnail into here, so just go ahead and click on em. It's a two-sheet bracket, with a full list of what player goes where, depending on what pool they were in and where they placed. I kept pools 1-4 and 5-8 together, because it allows you to make a 16 player/team bracket out of 4 pools, and because an 8 pool rotation will provide a negligibly smaller statistical chance of facing someone in bracket that you already played in pools.
Anyways, the two files have the exact same dimensions and spacing. So, if you print each sheet to fit a page without margins, you can use the seed designations to draw the first round of brackets, and then cover them up by overlapping the 2nd sheet on top. The end result is a nifty little double elimination bracket, ready for use!
That is, of course, if you find yourself needing to run a bracket on paper. If you have a computer handy with a tournament program installed, you can just use the pool designations on the Winner's Bracket for reference, and create your perfectly seeded bracket by hand
I hope that these will find some good use among the community
you should advertise that on the website/smash wiki, cause to me that was probably the single most confusing and tedious part of running my first few tournaments. I'll totally start learning tio cause I try to bring my computer to every tournament... I know not everyone does though, and like you said, emergencies do happen, so I'm glad these should still find some use 
