{"id":426,"date":"2015-10-09T11:39:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/?page_id=426"},"modified":"2022-11-24T20:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T17:19:31","slug":"mtr-appendix-e","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/mtr-appendix-e\/","title":{"rendered":"MTR Appendix E \u2014 Recommended Number of Rounds in Swiss Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following number of Swiss rounds is required for Premier tournaments (such as Regional Championship Qualifiers). It may be used at the Tournament Organizer\u2019s discretion for non-Premier tournaments.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Players (Teams)<\/strong><\/td>\nSwiss\u00a0Rounds<\/strong><\/td>\nPlayoff<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4 (Team\/2HG Only)<\/td>\n2\u00a0Single-Elimination Rounds (No Swiss)<\/td>\nNone (Run Single Elimination)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5-8<\/td>\n3\u00a0Single-Elimination Rounds (No Swiss)<\/td>\nNone (Run Single Elimination)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9-16<\/td>\n4\u00a0(if Limited Format with Booster Draft in Playoffs)
\n5\u00a0(All Other Formats)<\/td>\n		Top 8\u00a0(If Limited Format with Booster Draft in Playoffs)
\nTop 4\u00a0(All Other Formats)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17-32<\/td>\n5<\/td>\nTop 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33-64<\/td>\n6<\/td>\nTop 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
65-128<\/td>\n7<\/td>\nTop 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
129-226<\/td>\n8<\/td>\nTop 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
227-409<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nTop 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
410+<\/td>\n10<\/td>\nTop 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Team tournaments consider each team as a single player for this purpose.<\/p>\n

In tournaments where awarded byes are used, each player with a 1-round bye should count as 2 players, each player with a 2-round bye should count as 4 players, and each player with a 3-round bye should count as 8 players when using the above chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following number of Swiss rounds is required for Premier tournaments (such as Regional Championship Qualifiers). It may be used at the Tournament Organizer\u2019s discretion for non-Premier tournaments.   Players (Teams) Swiss\u00a0Rounds Playoff 4 (Team\/2HG Only) 2\u00a0Single-Elimination Rounds (No Swiss) None (Run Single Elimination) 5-8 3\u00a0Single-Elimination Rounds (No Swiss) None (Run Single Elimination) 9-16 4\u00a0(if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_width-index.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"language":[6],"class_list":["post-426","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/426\/revisions\/10490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}