The following would be a good shuffle rule:
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2 6,
3 2,
4 5,
5 1,
6 4,
7 7.
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7 teams in the tournament. 3 teams play in each game. 3 games are played by each team. 7 games are played in the whole tournament. Each team plays every other team once. Each team plays on every colour once. |
| Game | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | ||
| Team | 1 | R | Y | G | ||||
| 2 | G | R | Y | |||||
| 3 | G | R | Y | |||||
| 4 | Y | G | R | |||||
| 5 | Y | G | R | |||||
| 6 | Y | G | R | |||||
| 7 | Y | G | R | |||||
The above grid shows conceptually how the 7-team grid works, but every game is a back-to-back. Below is a grid twice as long, in which only half the games are back-to-backs. |
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7 teams in the tournament. 3 teams play in each game. 6 games are played by each team. 14 games are played in the whole tournament. Each team plays every other team twice. Each team plays on every colour twice. |
| Game | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | B1 | C1 | D1 | E1 | F1 | G1 | A2 | B2 | C2 | D2 | E2 | F2 | G2 | |||
| Team | 1 | R | Y | G | R | G | Y | |||||||||
| 2 | G | R | Y | Y | R | G | ||||||||||
| 3 | G | R | Y | Y | R | G | ||||||||||
| 4 | Y | G | R | G | Y | R | ||||||||||
| 5 | Y | R | G | R | G | Y | ||||||||||
| 6 | R | G | Y | Y | G | R | ||||||||||
| 7 | Y | G | R | G | R | Y | ||||||||||
The following would be a good shuffle rule: |
| 6 team tournament | Tournament Grids | 8 team |
| 6 team league | League Grids |