So, gonna host my first tournament this weekend and I dont think I really get the whole strength of schedule thing.

I just add the score of my/any players opponents together right? And that result is it? All opponents up to that point or just the last opponent?

Explain it to me like I am seven so I dont make any misstakes, a little nervous here.

Any other tips form people who have hosted tournaments, how did you divide the prizes for example?

Have fun.

You add up the tournament points of every player that a particular person faced.

Typically I give the first place player the medal.

Top 2 get the next rarest prizes.

Top 4 get the next rarest.

Alternate art card goes to everyone.

Make all the prices random. Split the kit as much as possible. This depend so much of how many people you are. This is like we did last weekend. We were 10 persons, 5€ each.

1.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

2.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

3.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

4.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

5.- Medal, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

6.- IG88, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

7.- IG88, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

8.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

9.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

10.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

Total kit price 30€. Rest, 20€, fully random split on 4 tickets of 5€ to spend on the FLGS.

You will see more different lists, not only Royal Guards and Imperial officers + some stuff. On this system you will see a lot of different things and it will be more fun. You can test different things in that way.

We didn't do a SOS, nor do we use any type of MOV. Just wins/losses and play until you have a definitive winner. We usually only do 1/2 a kit each month as we only have 4-5 people:

1st: Medal + choice of other stuff

2nd: choice of whats remaining

3rd: choice of whats remaining

etc

Other stuff is usually split like this: 5 tokens, IG-88 card, dice bag. Everyone gets at least one Trandoshan card. The other thing we've talked about and will do in the future: First team to set up the map gets an extra trandoshan!

If we get extra $ over the cost of the kit, the store owner will throw in a figure pack as a random raffle prize or something. Everyone gets something more than the basic alt art card.

So, gonna host my first tournament this weekend and I dont think I really get the whole strength of schedule thing.

I just add the score of my/any players opponents together right? And that result is it? All opponents up to that point or just the last opponent?

Explain it to me like I am seven so I dont make any misstakes, a little nervous here.

Any other tips form people who have hosted tournaments, how did you divide the prizes for example?

Have fun.

Strength of schedule is used with people who have the same record as a way to break the tie. What it is supposed to do is take into account that the players that one player faced were stronger than the players another player faced. And should win the tie breaker because he faced harder competition.

From my years as a judge (15+) for Magic the Gathering and other CCGs, there are numerous problems with SoS (like when players drop). But, it is a decent tie breaker.

There are several ways to calculate it. In some games it's wins divided by total matches, points divided by total possible points, just a straight adding up of points of opponents.

But, it is for all the opponents of that player. If you don't have a computer program / app to handle the pairings and such, the best way I've found is to make a score sheet and number each player. Then it's just a little book keeping and really pretty simple (until you get to more than 64 players).

I once ran an event with over 800 players using score cards.

Make all the prices random. Split the kit as much as possible. This depend so much of how many people you are. This is like we did last weekend. We were 10 persons, 5€ each.

1.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

2.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

3.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

4.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

5.- Medal, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

6.- IG88, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

7.- IG88, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

8.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

9.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

10.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

Total kit price 30€. Rest, 20€, fully random split on 4 tickets of 5€ to spend on the FLGS.

You will see more different lists, not only Royal Guards and Imperial officers + some stuff. On this system you will see a lot of different things and it will be more fun. You can test different things in that way.

IMO the way you did this it would have been best to finish 6th and 7th! IG88 alt art over the dice bag for sure!

Make all the prices random. Split the kit as much as possible. This depend so much of how many people you are. This is like we did last weekend. We were 10 persons, 5€ each.

1.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

2.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

3.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

4.- Dice Bag, 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan card

5.- Medal, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

6.- IG88, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

7.- IG88, 2 focus tokens, 1 Trasdoshan card

8.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

9.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

10.- 2 focus tokens, 2 Trasdoshan cards

Total kit price 30€. Rest, 20€, fully random split on 4 tickets of 5€ to spend on the FLGS.

You will see more different lists, not only Royal Guards and Imperial officers + some stuff. On this system you will see a lot of different things and it will be more fun. You can test different things in that way.

IMO the way you did this it would have been best to finish 6th and 7th! IG88 alt art over the dice bag for sure!

I didn't explain correctly, I fail explaining myself on english quite often. All the prizes were random, those are the groups where we divided the kit. We use a D10 to give packs to the people.

Here in Spain we only have still the core to play, so most of the players play with Royal Guards + officers + some stuff (tokens are able to use: Chew, RCG...), but on Luke, Vader and Core maps; RG are much more better to the rest because of their speed. So in that way, with fully random prizes we see rebelds, scum and more variety on lists. You can test new things. And because of that the tournament is more fun.