Draw Construction

Which type of competition structure would you use for the following?

   Tennis draw with 32 players A Touch carnival with 4 teams A girls rugby day with 16 teams  A children’s athletics day

Tennis –

Knockout

(sideways tree diagram)

Knockout’s allow you to get through the tournament much faster to decide the best player

Touch -

round robbin

With only a few team, round robbins allow for maximum participation. The winner can be decided with a scoreboard adding points for wins, losses or draws .

Name

Warilla Lake Dapto Oak

Win

3 2 0 0 0 1 2 2

Loss Draw Total Points

1 1 0 0

Rugby Tournament -

Pools

• With 16 teams it’s better to put the teams into 4 pool groups. Each team has at least 3 games each. The winners of the pool groups play eachother in the knockout finals

Childrens Athletics -

Tabloid

• A scoreboard is kept that tallies each result to see who performed well at each event. Can be team or individual. • The winner is usually not important.

Team

Frogs Bees Cats

Egg & Spoon Hurdle relay Captain Ball Wheel Barrow race Sleeping Lions

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Construct a round robin of your own.

You decide what the sporting event is, how many teams and what the team names are.