TOURNAMENT OPERATION, PROCEDURES and SPECIALITIES
1. Tournament execution is presented over internet.
2. The first round will be seed manually.
3. In case of odd number of players one of them receives random a bye.
4. After the round with odd number of players is finished the system will give a bye in the next round to one of the players with the bad performance in the bracket's bottom.
5. When the number of players comes down to an odd number, the system will give a bye to a player in the bracket's bottom (like in Swiss system).
6. A player can not receive a bye one more time if other players don't have the same number of byes.
7. All pairings after the first round produce by the programme. The system doesn't pair the players who have been played like opponents as long as possible (Swiss system).
8. In case only three players leave in the competition and all three players have two losses and number of byes for all players are equal, then there are follow options:
- if two players didn't play like opponents then they have to play;
- if one player didn't play against another both, then he has to play and his opponent will be draw manually;
- if all players have played against one another, then the draw will be made manually.
9. In case the winner beat both his opponents from p.8, then there are follow options:
- second place receives the player with more number of wins;
- if the number of wins is equal for both players, then the second place receives the player who has won against his opponent during the tournament;
- if the number of wins is equal for both players and the players didn't play like opponents then they have to play one extra match to assign second and third places.
10. In case only five players leave in the competition, then there are follow options:
10.1. if four players have had their byes, then the fifth player should have a bye and pairings will be made according to the p.7;
10.2. if three players have had their byes, then the bye receives the player who has played more against another three; in case these two players both have the equal number of matches or no matches played against other three, then it will be draw manually;
10.3. if two players have had their byes, then the bye receives the player who had played against these both; other way it will be draw manually;
10.4. if one player has had a bye, then the bye receives the player of last four with more matches played in this group; other way it will be draw manually;
10.5 if all five players have equal number of byes or they have no byes, then a bye receives the player with more matches played in this group, other way it will be draw manually.
11. In case only three players leave in the competition after the round described in p.10 then:
- the money of the third place will be share between the last three players, independent of number of wins;
- the cup for the third place receives the player with more number of wins or it will be decided according to the results between the last three players, that they made during the tournament.