tournment planning Flashcards

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Needs Assessment

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  • A tool that reveals the opinions and wishes of participants through feedback
  • Gather personal info - understand beliefs, opinions, issues, and what has been done in the past
  • examples Surveys and questionnaires, telephone interviews, focus groups, interest checklists, public meetings
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Five-Step Event Planning Process

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  • step one: NEEDS ASSESSMENT
  • step two: setting goals
  • step three: developing the plan for the event
  • step four: Implement the event
  • step five: Evaluation and Wrap-Up
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step one (Needs Assessment)

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identify and assess the needs of the targeted group

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step two (setting goals)

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develop goals that meet the needs of the target group

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step three (Developing the plan for the event)

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Develop the event plan (action plan)

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step four (Implement the event)

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IMPLEMENT the event plan

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step five (evaluation and wrap-up)

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evaluate the plan

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tournament organization

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  • 3 types of tournaments
  • Depending on what type of activity,
  • number of teams/players
  • time,
  • facilities,
  • and equipment needed
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Round Robin

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  • Each player or team gets to play every other player or team at least once
  • Sufficient time and facilities available
  • The number of competitors is small
  • For best accurate ranking
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round-robin Procedures

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  • Write a schedule and place for each game
  • Keep a score sheet
  • Tie breaking - coin toss, determining the total number of wins for each team
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Round-robin advantages and disadvantages

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Advantages
- All teams play till the end of tournament + equal # of games
- Fair; Accurate ranking
- Permits continuous play

Disadvantages
- Time-consuming and can lead to ties

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Elimination (Single Elimination)

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  • Single Elimination -To determine ONE champion; limited time and facilities, and many participants
  • Easy to organize, short time, good for limited facilities
  • Winner is not always the best, game times not known, less competition
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Elimination (Consolation tournaments)

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  • No teams eliminated in the first round - winners move to right - losers move to left
  • Each team plays at least twice and greater player interest
  • Time-consuming, more games = less space, game times unknown
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Elimination (Modified double-elimination)

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  • playing at least two times is assured, 1st round loss does not mean elimination, results are more fair
  • When you have more time/teams
  • Half winning and losing teams move to the left and the other half to the right
  • 2nd round - winning team against a team with a loss
  • Championship - last remaining teams on either side
  • Guarantee of two games, deserving winner, teams that start of slow are not eliminated
  • Unknown game times, takes longer, emphasizes elimination
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Challenge Tournaments

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  • Carried out by the players independently
    -examples of tournaments
  • ladder
  • target
  • pyramid
  • spiderweb
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when to use challenge tournaments

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When to Use This Type of Tournament
- Singles or doubles
Competitions that:
- Have no set schedule
- Run over a lengthy time period
- Involve any number of players

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Challenge tournament ladder

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  • Ladder - place players in a column - can challenge players 1 or 2 places above
  • More competition, no elimination
  • Often play the same teams
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Target Challenge tournament

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challenge anyone closer to the middle

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Spider Web Challenge tournament

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challenge anyone closer to the middle

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Pyramid Challenge tournement

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challenge anyone one or two places above - win = trade places

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Implementing the Event Plan

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  • before
  • during
  • after
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before the event

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  • Equipment put in place
  • Signs to be posted
  • Final safety checks
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During the event

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  • Supervise all aspects of the event
  • Troubleshoot any unforeseen situations
  • Continue risk management
  • Support and encourage volunteers
  • May be able to relax and enjoy the event
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after the event

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  • Clean-up
  • Assign specific tasks prior to the event
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Evaluating the Event: A formal report should include:

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  • Action plan
  • Minutes of meetings held
  • Copies of paperwork
  • Samples of promotional tools
  • Financial report
  • Feedback received from participants
  • Recommendations and suggestions
  • Notes highlighting what went very well
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Event Promotion Criteria

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  • who
  • what
  • when
  • where
  • how much
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Promotional Tool Examples

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  • posters
  • pamphlets
  • PSA video
  • school morning announcement
  • newspaper reporter
28
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Byes

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letting a team go to the next round without having to play (subtract the number of teams from a power of two that is more than) (16-3 or 32-28)

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Seeding

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ranking teams based on previous competition - prevents top players from being eliminated too early - giving a team a bye