Swiss system tournament

Swiss system for 32 players: round 1, and the sheet for the rest

These are the 16 matches you start with. From round 2 on, everyone plays someone on their points, so the pairings come out of what happens on court.

32players
5rounds
16matches per round
2 h 5 minback to back

Round 132 players

Match 1 Player 1vPlayer 17

Match 2 Player 2vPlayer 18

Match 3 Player 3vPlayer 19

Match 4 Player 4vPlayer 20

Match 5 Player 5vPlayer 21

Match 6 Player 6vPlayer 22

Match 7 Player 7vPlayer 23

Match 8 Player 8vPlayer 24

Match 9 Player 9vPlayer 25

Match 10 Player 10vPlayer 26

Match 11 Player 11vPlayer 27

Match 12 Player 12vPlayer 28

Match 13 Player 13vPlayer 29

Match 14 Player 14vPlayer 30

Match 15 Player 15vPlayer 31

Match 16 Player 16vPlayer 32

It follows the order you write the names in: the top half plays the bottom half, so if you know who plays better, put them first and no round comes out lopsided.

After each round

Add up the points and pair on them

Win a match and you play someone else who won.
Lose it and you play someone else who lost, not the leader.
You never repeat an opponent: if you have already met, it drops to the next player on those points.
At the end, whoever has most points after 5 rounds wins.

Why 5 rounds

It is what it takes to leave one winner

With 32 players, everyone against everyone would be 496 matches.

Every round splits the players who are level in two, so after 5 rounds one is left on top without anyone having played the whole field. That is why a Swiss fits in an afternoon and a round robin of 32 does not.

You can play fewer rounds if you are short of time: the table still works, there may just be more than one player level at the top.

The score sheet

The other 4 rounds are written in by hand

Who plays who in round 2 depends on who wins round 1, so they cannot be printed in advance.

That is not a shortcoming of this page: a sheet with all 5 rounds written out gets thrown away after the first one. Here you get the blank grid, and at the end of each round you write down who played who and how it went.

Player	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Points
Player 1
Player 2
Player 3
Player 4
Player 5
Player 6
Player 7
Player 8
Player 9
Player 10
Player 11
Player 12
Player 13
Player 14
Player 15
Player 16
Player 17
Player 18
Player 19
Player 20
Player 21
Player 22
Player 23
Player 24
Player 25
Player 26
Player 27
Player 28
Player 29
Player 30
Player 31
Player 32

One row per player: each round you write down who they played and whether they won. The right-hand column is what sorts the next round.

With your names

Paste the list and the round comes out with their names

Other sizes

Are there more or fewer of you?

From 6 to 64 players. When a Swiss system is the right format, and how it compares to a bracket.

And with no paper, the next round comes out on its own

Run it on Peldia and, as the last result goes in, round 2 shows up already paired on points, with nobody repeating an opponent. Nobody has to add anything up standing on court.

Free, and players do not have to sign up or install anything.

Set one up See the example club