(Sep. 12, 2011 10:01 PM)Ryugablader Wrote: How many bb10 attack stadiums are there gonna be. last tournament we had there was only 3
Yeah, I ordered a case of stadiums (at no small expense) to make sure that we would have enough. There will be a minimum of 5 BB-10 stadiums for tournament play. However, the number of stadiums actually used in the tournament is subject to the size of the blocks (in block round robin) and the number of available and experienced judges. In the last tournament we did not have enough experienced judges to run 5 stadiums, though we could have run 4 if we had had another stadium available for our use.
There is also (irrespective of block size) a direct relationship between the number of competitors, the number of stadiums and the number of judges. For example, let's say we have a 10 person tourney (including 5 judges), and we have 5 stadiums. We still couldn't use all 5 stadiums because all of the judges would be competing! At best we could run 3 stadiums at a time in that scenario, and sometimes would have to run rounds of 2 stadiums.
For Better than School! we will probably have 6 experienced judges, and probably be running rounds of 3-4 stadiums at a time. I always try to make sure in my pre-planning that I have tournament structures prepared that will be efficient, and now that I have multiple stadiums of my own the only factors that will be limiting are the number of judges and competitors.
Hope this provides you with some additional insight!