Adventures in Tabroom.com: Byes

2/09/2015

Byes

There is a flaw in the system that may keep the very bottom debater in the bottom bracket from getting the bye. You can determine if this has happened by looking at the teams in order under Results/Event Display.

There is one easy solution. If the bottom team was placed, trade them out with the assigned bye. Granted you won't have perfection in the pairing if you do this, but perfection in the pairing assumes, among other things, that speaker points are an objective measurement always applied equally. If you're truly anal, you can hand-pair the entire round, which only takes a couple of minutes in an average size field.

We have seen other problems with byes in the past. This one is easy to find and easy, on your end, to fix.

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Tournament Tool Kit

In addition to the tabroom.com manual, there's other things people about to throw a tournament might be interested in.

Setting up registration at a tournament: The difference between a smooth registration process and a traffic jam is knowing how tabroom.com works, and how to use it to move people quickly out of the world and into your events. This pdf works regardless of whether you're actually tabbing on tabroom.

E-Ballot instructions. Using e-ballots and want to make sure your judges are plugged into tabroom.com? First, here are the instructions from one tournament, in a docx file. Edit it with your own wifi specs, and claim it as your own: Word file for editing Or, take this general PDF and distribute it without your own specific site instructions.

A definitive approach to tournament conflicts, for teams and for judges I recommend that you distribute these before every tournament.

How to judge A collection of how-to materials for judging both speech and debate. Print up some of the relevant ones for your tournaments where you're training a lot of new judges.

Tabbing Best Practices. This is a handy short guide to what should be going on in tab rooms. A more elaborate version, with detailed explanations, also exists here.

Mutual Judge Preferences This explains how MJP works, and urges all teams to use it as the best tool for engineering the activity towards their own preferences. Recomended as part of an invitation to college events where a lot of the attendees may not be familiar with MJP. (This article was also published in Rostrum.)