Bracketed Forms
For those of you who have never competed under bracketed forms, it will be a lot like what you have experienced in sparring competition. Competitors are matched up throughout the competition, just like sparring, with byes awarded in the first round to insure four semi-finalists and two finalists in each division. Athletes will enter the competition area two at a time, be bowed in, and will
perform their poomse/form simultaneously. Rather then receiving an individual score from the officials (i.e. 8.7), the officials will then simply choose a winner of that individual match. Winners will advance to the next round of competition until the final two athletes have competed against each other.
And just like single elimination individual competition, single elimination bracketed forms has one major drawback – the 2nd best athlete in the division might just be eliminated in one of the earlier rounds. To compensate for this, we will utilize the Brazilian Repechage System of bracketed forms.
Under this system an athlete (from two separate pools) is not eliminated until the person who beat them is eliminated! The winner of the
Championship match obviously takes 1st place. The loser of the Championship match must then play the winner of the opposite pool’s repechage matches. The winner of that match takes 2nd, the loser takes third.
This system should provide for a much more entertaining poomse/forms competition especially in a larger division. Athletes will have the opportunity to perform their poomse/form more than once and their fans will have the opportunity to cheer them on throughout the division rather than just at the end when the winners would be announced under an individual competition format.
Example:
Pool A Pool B
Yun » « Val
Yun » Val
Kay Tamy
Yun » « Deb
June » « Deb
June « Deb
Soon Fran
Yun » Deb
Mary » « Brit
Mary « Brit
Barb Sally
Lisa « Brit
Lisa » « Peg
Lisa » Peg
Suzy Michi
In the example above, Yun won from Pool A and Deb won from Pool B. Yun then won over Deb to take 1st place.
The competitors (in green) that only lost to Yun would make up the repechage pool to compete against Pool B winner
Deb (in pink) for second and third.
Repechage Pool A
Kay Deb
June Lisa « Second place
June » Lisa » Lisa » Deb would take Third
Lisa »
For those of you who have never competed under bracketed forms, it will be a lot like what you have experienced in sparring competition. Competitors are matched up throughout the competition, just like sparring, with byes awarded in the first round to insure four semi-finalists and two finalists in each division. Athletes will enter the competition area two at a time, be bowed in, and will
perform their poomse/form simultaneously. Rather then receiving an individual score from the officials (i.e. 8.7), the officials will then simply choose a winner of that individual match. Winners will advance to the next round of competition until the final two athletes have competed against each other.
And just like single elimination individual competition, single elimination bracketed forms has one major drawback – the 2nd best athlete in the division might just be eliminated in one of the earlier rounds. To compensate for this, we will utilize the Brazilian Repechage System of bracketed forms.
Under this system an athlete (from two separate pools) is not eliminated until the person who beat them is eliminated! The winner of the
Championship match obviously takes 1st place. The loser of the Championship match must then play the winner of the opposite pool’s repechage matches. The winner of that match takes 2nd, the loser takes third.
This system should provide for a much more entertaining poomse/forms competition especially in a larger division. Athletes will have the opportunity to perform their poomse/form more than once and their fans will have the opportunity to cheer them on throughout the division rather than just at the end when the winners would be announced under an individual competition format.
Example:
Pool A Pool B
Yun » « Val
Yun » Val
Kay Tamy
Yun » « Deb
June » « Deb
June « Deb
Soon Fran
Yun » Deb
Mary » « Brit
Mary « Brit
Barb Sally
Lisa « Brit
Lisa » « Peg
Lisa » Peg
Suzy Michi
In the example above, Yun won from Pool A and Deb won from Pool B. Yun then won over Deb to take 1st place.
The competitors (in green) that only lost to Yun would make up the repechage pool to compete against Pool B winner
Deb (in pink) for second and third.
Repechage Pool A
Kay Deb
June Lisa « Second place
June » Lisa » Lisa » Deb would take Third
Lisa »