Even for SCT, NAQT hosts have a good deal of latitude for how to schedule a tournament. We guarantee that each team will play a certain number of rounds. Since we ship 20 rounds of questions anyway, most TD's choose a format that uses somewhere approaching 20 rounds. It makes sense to give teams the most bang for their buck*. It may be the case that playing too many rounds in one day becomes a burden. That did _not_ appear to be the case at USC, since Tim Woodward scheduled rounds to start every 25 minutes (as a reader I was fine with this; not sure how players felt but I heard no complaints). Be that as it may, there's a tradeoff involving three possible choices: 1. Play fewer rounds (quick tournament, leisurely tournament, but not as rich an experience) 2. Many rounds over two days (leisurely tournament, rich experience, but high time commitment) 3. Many rounds in one day (rich experience, less time commitment, but hectic) Different hosts made different choices. From what I've heard so far, each SCT host did a good job this year. Once I say that, there'll probably be horror stories, but that's what feedback is for. :-) Matt *- indeed, my biggest complaint about New England area NAQT tournaments when I was around was that the TDs tended to schedule too _few_ rounds for my (individual) taste (though always acceptable under the NAQT specs).
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