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Interesting thread. I've been playing and organizing tablehockey tournaments for many years and it sounds like what you guys are trying to do is right along the lines of what we do. If you all think that you can confirm at least 24 players who would be willing to travel to the Boston area, I would be willing to organize something like that. www.ustha.com Here's what i would propose doing for a 24 player tournament: 2 divisions of 12 of equal strength Divisional round robin where you play each player twice. Once as home team, once as away (if you think this is the fairest way to do it) If the home/away thing isn't that important than we could do a single round robin where you play everybody once. Players who finish 17-24 will playoff for C-Division Cup. (best of 5 series) 1-16 will make up the A-pool and will playoff. (best of 7) The 8 players who lose in the round of 16 will playoff for the B-Division cup.(best of 5 series) The remaining 8 players will continue to playoff best of 7 for the Masters Cup. So as you see, even the 24th place finisher will play at least 25 games. Round robin should take between 4-5 hours. Playoffs should take between 4-5 hours. Doing the tournament on a Saturday could leave Friday night open for a 2 on 2 event. Thoughts? Kenny