| Heads Up Tourney
I'm thinking about have a Heads Up tourney one of these days and I"m trying to think about how to set it up. Anyone have any experience pulling this off?
One problem I see is it's so reliant on numbers. If you've got 8 or 16 guys it's perfect. Anything else and you have to deal with byes or some different formats other than just a single elimination bracket.
The structure could be tricky also. Since HU can last a minute or go for hours, I'd like to set it up to some max time. I was thinking no more than a 1/2 hour for a round. Start everyone out with T1500 and blinds at 25-50. Raise them every 10 minutes to 50-100 and 100-200. At the end of the half hour, the chip leader wins.
So then, do you carry over your chips round to round and work the blinds schedule from there or just restart using the same 1500 and 25-50 blinds? I think carrying over would be cool because it would be an advantage to those that closed out their matches. They would bring T3000 into the next round where a guy might have squeaked by and won 1600-1400. It would take some thought to plan out a constantly rising blinds schedule though.
With 1/2 hour matches, I think a double elimination format might work best also, but that would really screw up the blinds. Maybe I could use a 1 hour per match format. That would get a field of 16 done in 4 hours and I could still use the carryover format. Use 15 min levels of 25-50, 50-100, 75-150, and 100-200. I would think that would lead to most matches being closed out rather than having to go to a chip count.
All right, I'm rambling on here. I'd love to hear some other ideas for formats, blinds, etc.  | 
