Tournament Categories and Types
Overview
Dr. Neau's Tournament Manager supports many different types of tournaments. This page will help you select the appropriate tournament for your needs.
Tournament Categories
Tournaments managed by Dr. Neau's Tournament Manager can be
broken into two main categories: Standard and Simple. The main different between the two is that "Standard" manages players and "Simple" just manages player counts. More detail follows:
- Standard
tournaments: With a standard tournament, you are managing a player
entity for each physical player who participates in the tournament. You
have a roster that lists all players in the
tournament. The players on the roster are pulled from a player database to which the tournament
is associated. Tournament status (buy-in count, remaining player count,
etc.) is managed by performing actions (buy-in,
add-on, rebuy and eliminate) on those players. If you like,
you can also manage player seating. Standard tournaments are great for
those who wish to keep track of what happend to every single individual
who played in their tournament, keep track of player statistics across
tournaments, roll up tournaments into leagues,
etc. A standard tournament will have a detailed event
log of all player actions.
- Simple tournaments:
With a simple tournament, you aren't tracking individual players.
Instead, you are keeping track of counts. How many people bought in?
How many people are remaining? Since you aren't managing player
entities, there is no player database and no seating management. A
simple tournament still has a tournament event log, but you don't find
detailed player activity in it.
Examples of differences between standard and simple to further
distinguish them.
Event |
In a standard tournament |
In a simple tournament |
A player hands you money to buy-into the tournament |
You select the player on the roster and hit the
"buy-in" button |
You increment the tournament buy-in count by one |
A player is eliminated |
You select the player on the roster and hit the
"eliminate" button. The player is automatically placed in
the standings. |
You decrement the tournament remaining player count by one.
If you wish to denote where the player finished, you go to the
standings and type their name into the appropriate spot. |
See the Tournament help page for even more detail, including the components of each type of tournament.
Tournament Types
Now that you hopefully understand the difference between
"standard" and "simple", this will make a bit more
sense.
Dr. Neau's Tournament Manager is architected to handle different
types of tournaments. The tournament types currently supported are:
- Traditional
Standard: A "Traditional" tournament is what most people are
used to - multiple players buy into the tournament and you continue
playing until one player remains. A "Traditional Standard"
tournament is therefore a "Traditional" tournament with
player management.
- Traditional
Simple: A "Traditional" tournament without player management.
- Shootout Standard:
A "Shootout" tournament is similar to a
"Traditional" tournament except that each table plays down to
a pre-determined number of players before consolidation occurs. Chip
stacks may or may not be reset after consolidation. In essence, each
table is like a mini-tournament.
- Shootout Simple: A
"Shootout" tournament without player management.
- Bracketed
Heads-Up Standard: A match-based tournament where players play heads-up
matches in a bracket format.
- Round-Robin
Heads-Up Standard: The tournament is divided into multiple rounds with
each round consisting of multiple heads-up matches. Every player either
plays in every round or has a bye. The winner of the tournament is the
person with the best match record after all matches are complete.
- Round-Robin
Heads-Up Fixed Elimination Standard: Just like a round-robin heads-up,
except that players are eliminated after a certain number of losses.
- Sit-and-Go
Series Standard: Just like a round-robin heads-up, except that matches
may have more than two players.
- Sit-and-Go
Series Rising Water Standard: Just like a sit-and-go series, except
that players are eliminated after not accumulating enough points to
continue..