Single Elimination Practice - Scheduling
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Scenario:
You are in charge of programming a 3-on-3 basketball tournament as part of World Sports Day at Indiana University. The participants will represent some of the countries that have students at attending IU. You are going to play games at the HPER, using 2 courts for 4 hours per day (5pm, 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm). You will begin games on Saturday, November 4 and play games every day through Wednesday, November 8 (5 days). You are allowing 1 hour for each match scheduled, and participants MAY only play one match per day.
1. Figure out the number of entries you can accommodate in your tournament.
2. Draw the single elimination bracket for the number of entries in your tournament.
3. Seed the entries, and indicate their positions with the numbers 1, 2, 3 ....
4. Position byes appropriately.
5. Schedule the matches. List day, date, court and time of matches.
6. Determine how much money will be spent for officials if you provide 2 per court per match at $10 per official per game.