Arena Draw Option/ Arena Priority
I recently hosted an 8 man double round robin tournament. It was terrible on MatchPlay. Here are the issues I encountered. We only had 4 machines on location. When I start the tournament it generates all 8 matches in all 8 rounds at once. Only 4 of the matches per round are assigned an arena as that is all that is available to draw from. In a format like this, it may be best to just generate all matches and machines to let the system balance the arena draws. Also in round 1 and just about every other round, it gave 2 arenas to the same 2 people, instead of giving each unique matchup an arena. My options were to manually assign arenas for the unnasigned, which could potentially unbalance the arena drawing. Or I could have players go through and look for a round that they have an assigned arena in with a free player and go back after all assigned arenas have been played in a round, then start letting the system draw accordingly. All in all it was a hectic experience for everyone, but we all enjoyed the format, and I will probably run one again. I'd like to be able to use Match Play effectively for this style of tournament, but with the current settings it was more of a hassle than it's worth. Thanks.