If you are judging a gpt with 8 participants, how do you go straight to playoffs? I didn't know how to today, so I just manually dropped the losing players after each round.

Yes, that is probably the only way how to do it, AFAIK.

It's unlikely that the Edit Event function would let you change the type to Single Elimination, so yes, dropping the losing players is your solution.

Jack

I run some months ago an 8 players GPT for my first time and asked for help to a L2 in my region after trying to EDIT the event. He gave to me two options:

1. Note all matches as drawn to finally make playoffs.
2. Drop looser of each match.

I finally created a casual event to run it directly in playoffs mode. Then I mailed WotC (Spain) with the event sanction number, explaining what happened and they kindly converted the event in a GPT for the winner to get his 2 BYES without problems.

Regards.

PS: Second time I judged an 8 players GPT I used the drop method.

#1 is only okay if you then explain to WPN that you've done it.
Otherwise it's tournament fraud.

Note that this isn't the first time this topic has come up.

It's not hard to just drop the loser when entering the result, doesn't require much extra work from the scorekeeper and saves having to do anything weird after the event such as contacting the WPN rep.

Originally posted by Mark Brown:

Well those rules come from Wotc why don't they give us the option to change the event to single elimination so we don't have to use custom solutions?
Oh wait, its WER…

I see my method wasn't that bad. However, this was a limited gpt and I felt that it's a bit strange doing this. I mean, you can create seatings but it's not really the same as creating a draft pod.

You can always run your draft pod on paper and process the results afterwards, right?