World Tantrix Championship Draw - Method

Introduction:

The World Tantrix Championship draw takes place in the Tantrix lobby at 10.30 GMT on Wednesday 1 September. A seeded draw is really very simple to operate, but if you are going to 'watch' the draw in the lobby, it might appear a bit strange if you haven't looked at this page first because it's not simply a case of drawing out the Round 1 pairings one by one. This page explains exactly what will happen and, with the help of two diagrams, what it all means in terms of match-ups.

Hint - if you know how seeded draws work in general, you can ignore most of the explanation and just page down to the diagrams to see exactly how it will work in this case, though you may also want to look at the notes just above the main draw diagram which explain how the physical draw will be done.

The Two Knockout Competitions:

The main World Championship starts with a 64-player seeded draw. This is what we will be drawing on 1 September. The top 8 seeds will get byes in Round 1 if the number of entrants remains at 56. You only get one chance - lose a match and you're out.

However, there is a also a consolation competition for players who lose in Rounds 1 or 2, so even if you lose to a top seed in Round 1, there's still something to play for. This is usually called a Plate competition because in some sports, the winner wins an engraved plate. In fact, the prize here is the closest we can get to a plate shape - it's a Tantrix CD! Please note that this competition is separate - it is not a second chance to actually win the World Championship.

The Main World Championship Draw:

The top two seeds are placed at the top and bottom of the draw automatically. Apologies for not managing to stop the two professional Tantrix players from being the top two seeds, but unfortunately Mike foiled my plan by winning the Pacific Championship a few days ago! The remaining players will be split into "seed groups" - seeds 3 & 4 in the first one, seeds 5-8 in the second, 9-16 in the third, 17-32 in the fourth and unseeded players in the fifth.

The Kowalczyks will be doing the physical draw in Australia using a set of numbered Tantrix tiles. There's no point in bribing them :-), because I will have randomised the numbers within each seeding group by computer, so for example number 5 may be any of seeds 5, 6, 7 or 8. The Kowalczyks won't know which player they've drawn until I look at my list and tell them. Don't worry - I can't 'fix' the draw either - the exact structure is shown below and I will send my randomised list to Mike before the draw, so there's no way I can change it if I don't like it! :-(

The draw will be done seed group by seed group. Looking at the diagram after the next paragraph (please reduce your browser font size if it looks a mess!), first tiles 3 and 4 are put into the bag. Alex or Zenon will draw one of the tiles out. If it's number 4, say, I'll look at the randomised list to see if that is Seed 3 or Seed 4 ... Alex or Zenon in fact :-) - whoever it is will go into draw position 32, the other will go into draw position 33.

Next, tiles 5, 6, 7 and 8 will go into the bag and be drawn to fill draw positions 16, 17, 48 and 49 in that order. Those who are thinking fast will already be able to work out potential quarter-final match-ups! However, we won't know the Round 1 match-ups until the final group, the unseeded players, are drawn to fill the remaining spaces.

WORLD TANTRIX CHAMPIONSHIP MAIN DRAW
Draw position	Round 1		Round 2		Seed Group
	Match	Player	Player	Match	1	2	3	4	5
1	1A	Seed 1 (mikem)			Automatic
2		Unseeded player	Winner 1A	2A					X
			v
3	1B	Unseeded player	Winner 1B						X
4		One of seeds 17-32						X
5	1C	One of seeds 17-32						X
6		Unseeded player	Winner 1C	2B					X
			v
7	1D	Unseeded player	Winner 1D						X
8		One of seeds 9-16					X
9	1E	One of seeds 9-16					X
10		Unseeded player	Winner 1E	2C					X
			v
11	1F	Unseeded player	Winner1F						X
12		One of seeds 17-32						X
13	1G	One of seeds 17-32						X
14		Unseeded player	Winner 1G	2D					X
			v
15	1H	Unseeded player	Winner1H						X
16		One of seeds 5-8				X
17	1I	One of seeds 5-8				X
18		Unseeded player	Winner 1I	2E					X
			v
19	1J	Unseeded player	Winner1J						X
20		One of seeds 17-32						X
21	1K	One of seeds 17-32						X
22		Unseeded player	Winner 1K	2F					X
			v
23	1L	Unseeded player	Winner1L						X
24		One of seeds 9-16					X
25	1M	One of seeds 9-16					X
26		Unseeded player	Winner 1M	2G					X
			v
27	1N	Unseeded player	Winner1N						X
28		One of seeds 17-32						X
29	1O	One of seeds 17-32						X
30		Unseeded player	Winner 1O	2H					X
			v
31	1P	Unseeded player	Winner1P						X
32		Seed 3 or 4			X
33	1Q	Seed 3 or 4			X
34		Unseeded player	Winner 1Q	2I					X
			v
35	1R	Unseeded player	Winner1R						X
36		One of seeds 17-32						X
37	1S	One of seeds 17-32						X
38		Unseeded player	Winner 1S	2J					X
			v
39	1T	Unseeded player	Winner1T						X
40		One of seeds 9-16					X
41	1U	One of seeds 9-16					X
42		Unseeded player	Winner 1U	2K					X
			v
43	1V	Unseeded player	Winner1V						X
44		One of seeds 17-32						X
45	1W	One of seeds 17-32						X
46		Unseeded player	Winner 1W	2L					X
			v
47	1X	Unseeded player	Winner1X						X
48		One of seeds 5-8				X
49	1Y	One of seeds 5-8				X
50		Unseeded player	Winner 1Y	2M					X
			v
51	1Z	Unseeded player	Winner1Z						X
52		One of seeds 17-32						X
53	1AA	One of seeds 17-32						X
54		Unseeded player	Winner 1AA	2N					X
			v
55	1AB	Unseeded player	Winner1AB						X
56		One of seeds 9-16					X
57	1AC	One of seeds 9-16					X
58		Unseeded player	Winner 1AC	2O					X
			v
59	1AD	Unseeded player	Winner1AD						X
60		One of seeds 17-32						X
61	1AE	One of seeds 17-32						X
62		Unseeded player	Winner 1AE	2P					X
			v
63	1AF	Unseeded player	Winner1AF						X
64		Seed 2 (Bdot)			Automatic

The Plate Competition Draw:

Ther's no need to do a separate draw for this - it follows from the main draw as you will see in the diagram after the next paragraph. The match numbers starting 1 and 2 refer to matches shown in the main draw above, those starting P refer to Round 1 Plate matches.

As you can see below, main draw Round 1 losers play in Plate Round 1 (there may be some byes) and the winners of those matches play the losers from main draw Round 2, then the knockout proceeds as normal. The Round 2 losers have been distributed so that if you lose to one of the top 8 seeds in main draw Round 1, you won't have to play another one of the top 8 seeds in Plate Rounds 1 or 2 if they happen to have suffered a surprise loss early in the main draw.

"PLATE" DRAW
Round 1		Round 2
Match	Player	Player
P1	Loser 1A	Loser 2K
	Loser 1B	Winner P1
P2	Loser 1C	Winner P2
	Loser 1D	Loser 2L
P3	Loser 1E	Loser 2I
	Loser 1F	Winner P3
P4	Loser 1G	Winner P4
	Loser 1H	Loser 2J
P5	Loser 1I	Loser 2O
	Loser 1J	Winner P5
P6	Loser 1K	Winner P6
	Loser 1L	Loser 2P
P7	Loser 1M	Loser 2M
	Loser 1N	Winner P7
P8	Loser 1O	Winner P8
	Loser 1P	Loser 2N
P9	Loser 1Q	Loser 2C
	Loser 1R	Winner P9
P10	Loser 1S	Winner P10
	Loser 1T	Loser 2D
P11	Loser 1U	Loser 2A
	Loser 1V	Winner P11
P12	Loser 1W	Winner P12
	Loser 1X	Loser 2B
P13	Loser 1Y	Loser 2G
	Loser 1Z	Winner P13
P14	Loser 1AA	Winner P14
	Loser 1AB	Loser 2H
P15	Loser 1AC	Loser 2E
	Loser 1AD	Winner P15
P16	Loser 1AE	Winner P16
	Loser 1AF	Loser 2F

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Last Updated on 29/06/99
By Steven
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