[FRC Blog]2017 Updates

[Nathan Streeter]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_tournament
A six team round robin tournament schedule would look like this:

I'm guessing there's nothing too special about the order of each round?

If not, by switching 3v4 and 6v1 within Round 2 and switching 6v2 and 4v1 within Round 4, you could avoid having a team ever play a match back-to-back.

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

I'm guessing there's nothing too special about the order of each round?

If not, by switching 3v4 and 6v1 within Round 2 and switching 6v2 and 4v1 within Round 4, you could avoid having a team ever play a match back-to-back.

I was thinking about that earlier, but as some people have pointed out, there are plenty of speeches that can fill time between matches.

[Foster]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

I'm guessing there's nothing too special about the order of each round?

If not, by switching 3v4 and 6v1 within Round 2 and switching 6v2 and 4v1 within Round 4, you could avoid having a team ever play a match back-to-back.

I think that Koko Ed was just showing an example of a Round Robin, devil is always in the details.

I like the Round Robin as the finals, it does let every team play against each other.

The only thing would be the "disaster the robot broke" matches, you'd then need to win the others to stay in contention.

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter

I'm guessing there's nothing too special about the order of each round?

If not, by switching 3v4 and 6v1 within Round 2 and switching 6v2 and 4v1 within Round 4, you could avoid having a team ever play a match back-to-back.

Correct. The above schedule could be optimized as you describe. There's actually some cool math behind optimal scheduling of round robin tournaments. Take a look:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54715.html