The Card System

This system for doing elimination rounds is mostly used in the northwest US tournaments, mainly the Seattle area. It has been used in one tourney that I have been to, and I plan to use this format if I host a tourney at any time in the near future.

Instead of allowing players to pick songs, one player will draw a card. The card will have 5 songs written on the card. I strongly recommend you put difficulty levels on there so that players may decide what to eliminate.

Oh, I jumped ahead a little there. The two players will take turns eliminating a song from the list, that they do not want to play. The remaining 3 songs that are not eliminated are played. As for the order of the songs, you can play the songs from top to bottom, or let each player alternatively pick what songs could come first, second, and third. For eliminating songs, I suggest that the lower seed get the opportunity to eliminate a song first.

A little confused? I'll illustrate.

#2 Chris vs. # 15 Larry

Card is picked.
The card contains these songs :

I'm Gonna Get You Heavy (7 feet)
Ecstasy Heavy (7 feet)
My Summer Love Heavy (9 feet)
Brilliant 2 U (K.O.G. G3 Mix) Oni (7 feet)
Dam Dariram Heavy (8 feet)

Now to eliminate songs. Let's use the recommendation that I have made.

Larry, being the lower seed, gets to eliminate a song of his choosing first.

He decides to eliminate Dam Dariram Heavy.

Now it's Chris's turn to eliminate a song.

He decides to scratch My Summer Love Heavy from the list.

So now, the card looks like this :

I'm Gonna Get You Heavy (7 feet)
Ecstasy Heavy (7 feet)
My Summer Love Heavy (9 feet)
Brilliant 2 U (K.O.G. G3 Mix) Oni (7 feet)
Dam Dariram Heavy (8 feet)

Ok! That leaves 3 songs still in the list. Those songs will be played. What order? You can choose to have the songs played in that particular order, or you can use this system to pick the order. The higher seed will get to pick what song goes first, and the lower seed gets to pick what song goes second. The last song, will be played third.

You can use fighting style, or cumulative. Your choice.

For Tourney Organizers : How to create the cards.

Of course, it's simple. Just put 5 songs and difficulties on a card. Make a minimum of 63 cards for a 32 person double elimination bracket. You can even make more, and I strongly recommend you do.

Note : I have competed in a tourney with this format. However, this tourney I went to had a lot of things wrong, such as using the cards again, and some crazy cards that no one seemed to pass songs on them. Please be reasonable when making the cards. If you want, separate the cards by the particular round, and so you can make cards with appropriate difficulties corresponding to what round they are to be used. Like in the finals, you only list the hardest songs on heavy, not some stupid standard song.

If you recongize some of these things, yes I took some of these rules from the DDR Magic Tournament series, held every year(?) in Seattle, Washington. This is another fair format to everyone in a tourney.

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