Match Play knockout software for rugby tournament from Match Play World offers clubs an easy online tool to create compelling rugby sevens events.
Events can run over a season or a weekend or day depending on your needs. Draws can set up as an unseeded or a seeded draw and there are two options for tournament formats.
Knockout is the classic tournament format that sees winners of each tie advance and losers be knocked out. The Match Play World software enables results to be entered, reports to be submitted and details of the time and pitches to be used for the game.
If required a rugby plate tournament can be created with first round losers, which then operates in the same way as a knockout event.
Alternatively the unique Matrix format ensures that every team plays every round but that the winner is still the last team left undefeated. This is a great format for keeping teams in an event, especially if they have travelled long distances to get there.
The Matrix also avoids the issues with Group Stages in Rugby tournaments, as it means that every team plays the same number of games and that there are no repeat fixtures.
Each team quickly finds level more quickly, which leads to more equal games for developing sides and more enjoyable games for spectators.
The tie breaker for scoring could be overall points or tries. Whichever is chosen as the scoring unit is added together from each match to create the Score Difference for each team. Teams are then ranked first by wins and then by Score Difference.
