ok, I talked to Simon and I got quite a lot of information:
First of all, both the prerounds and the finalrounds are played with TWO maps, no "best of three" or so.
The Mappool:
Runningman (Preround-Map 1)
Bloddprison (map without Nexgun, Preround-Map 2)
Toxic (Final map 1)
Soylent (Final map 2)
As 54 People signed up there will be 27 matches at the beginning, resulting in 27 winners. However, to continue we need a even number (28 players), this is why a "lucky loser" of that round is allowed to continue although he lost. Then, with these 28 players, 14 matches are played, having 14 winners, these 14 winners play again, having 7 winners. Again a loser of the previous round is allowed to participate, and then there are 8 players playing 4 matches which result in 4 winners, the final round-candidates
I agree that this method of organising the matches is the best, better than playing a 64 players tournament with 54 players, which would mean that only 22 matches are really played (with 2 players per match) and 10 matches are default wins.
So, here comes the resulting timetable (German Time, Month=Nov 2006):
Saturday, 11th:
11am - 3:30pm Preround 1
Saturday, 11th:
3:30pm - 5:50pm Preround 2
Sunday, 12th:
11am - 12:10am Preround 3
Sunday, 12th:
12:10am - 3pm Preround 4
Sunday, 12th:
3pm - 5 pm Final rounds
Sunday, 12th:
evening: publishing the rankings and nominating the winner
At Final Rounds, every of the 4 players plays against the other three ones.
Demos are forced for the final rounds, but not for the prerounds.
The tourney tree isn't created yet, they have to decide whether they gonna compute it by a script or do it manually.
and btw: tChr, are you going to broadcast some of the matches ? Or is someone else going to do it ?
