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This style of country-based tournament was first proposed by another fellow eSim-er (whose name, unfortunately, I could not remember). But I openly declare that this was not my brainchild and was originally developed by someone else and I have just made a few more improvements to it, and helped make it better for the welfare of eSim and its citizens.
So let’s run through this Swiss-Style stuff once. Normal knockout tournaments are generally created in the following way:
[{(2 x 2) x 2} x 2] and so on…
Or, simply put,
Let’s say we have 128 participants,
Thus, we get,
128→64→32→16→8→4→2→1
Thus, all these figures can be obtained from the repeated 2 multiplication method… (Try it out sometime)...
Now, let’s cut to the chase. The Swiss style gives us the opportunity to create a tournament or championship without having to have the exact amount of participants as the equation gives us.
In this instance I shall advocate a modified version of the Swiss style tournament which shall prove greatly beneficial if capitalized on.
In the case of Primera, the total participants figure is 50. Thus, unless we have at least 64 countries or cut the figure down to 32, we don’t have a chance to create a conventional country-based knockout championship.
The Swiss style tournament is essentially a cross between the league and the knockout systems. Partially, time consuming, (not as much time-consuming as the league system neither as quick as the knockouts) the Swiss style tournament is a very effective format.
Now, for the format:
FORMAT
C1 vs. C50
C2 vs. C49
C3 vs. C48
C4 vs. C47
And so on…
I’ve tried to give a humble graphical representation of the fixtures as follows...
After the first battles, as you can see, the countries are divided into two groups (or pools, as you may wish) - all the winning countries are grouped together in Group A and all the losing countries are grouped together in Group B. Now, the countries in both the groups face off against each other according to their rankings in terms of population in that group. You may be wondering that playing 25 people against each other will result in 24 playing [12 vs. 12] and 1 resulting as the observer. We can’t deny Maths can we? And so, we will accept this fact and still move on. How? Let’s find out.
We have only been considering one group in this case while there are two. That leaves us with 2 observers, not 1! Let me explain. The top 24 ranked countries of Group A face off against each other while the bottom 24 countries of Group B have a battle at their hands. This leaves out the 25th ranked country of Group A and the 1st ranked country of Group B who face off in another battle. Here is a graphical representation of the same.
After this round, the winners & losers are separated yet again into Groups – A & B.
It is now that this procedure is to be repeated totally several times until the final winner is obtained.
After this, I still have another suggestion to the admin. I suggest that after this competition is completed, (if it is held at all) a new ranking list to be maintained which shall depict the worldwide country rankings as the countries finished in the points table in the end. Also, I would like to advice that the countries should not loss from this championship in any means so that we don’t have weaker countries reluctantly playing tournaments just because they have to.
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Your further comments & criticisms are welcome.
Cheers,
Arthish
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
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