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Beer Olympics Scheduling Conundrum

yukonalexander

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on: August 02, 2016, 05:53:45 PM
Nearly at a complete loss, and this may be a no go but heres my situation. I am planning Beer Olympics that will have 4 teams of 4. There will be 6 events in total that all teams will need to compete in. 4 of the 6 events require the 4 person teams to be split into pairs. The issue I am having is that I can figure out how to schedule which teams will go where for what events, however I can't figure out how to split teams off into pairs in which all will play evenly. Ill try and make this easier by listing the teams and the events:

Blue Team:
A, B, C, D

Red Team:
E, F, G, H

Green Team:
I, J, K, L

Yellow Team:
M, N, O, P

Boat Race: All teams involved, no scheduling needed.
Split Event 1: Beer Pong/ Beer Frisbee (pairs only for each)
High Noon: All teams involved, no scheduling needed.
Split Event 2: Cornhole/ Putt Putt (pairs only for each)
Flip Cup: All teams involved, no scheduling needed.
Slip N Slide: All teams involved, no scheduling needed.

Please let me know if this is an impossible nightmare, or if any other information is needed.


Ian Wakeling

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Reply #1 on: August 03, 2016, 03:53:27 AM
You may need to explain more about the format of play for one of the split events.  At the moment I am imagining that you would split each team into two fixed pairs at the beginning.  So when blue and red meet for a split event you would play four mini-rounds as follows:

                      Pong         Frisbee
mini-round1  AB vs EF   CD vs GH
mini-round2  CD vs EF   AB vs GH  
mini-round3  CD vs GH  AB vs EF
mini-round4  AB vs GH  CD vs EF

I don't think you can rotate partners as you would need too many rounds of play.
« Last Edit: August 03, 2016, 04:15:17 AM by Ian »