game designers with plans to run immense games some day might be amused to note that the way the WSoP copes with such immense entries is by running multiple parallel streams
It's almost as if they've looked at the structure of such novel competitions as the Coupe de France de Football. Any club side in France can enter into their appropriate sub-regional round, in which there are precisely enough games to fill the regional quota. In the regional rounds, there are precisely enough games to fill the sub-national quota, and there are precisely enough of those to make the national competition a round of 64 in early January.
Normandy, for instance, is allowed to send eight sides into the sub-national round. Though there are 128 clubs entering from the region, some are from higher divisions and claim exemption to a later round. (Compare to poker players able to buy in directly to the competition, if you will). Others are from départements with fewer entries. The net result: a first-round of 67 matches, a second-round of 80, and diminishing from there.
So long as the eight names are available for the sub-national round, the FFF doesn't care when the matches are played. This particularly applies for the satellite tournaments in the departements-outre-mer, where the winners enter in the sub-national round.
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Date: 2010-07-25 10:46 am (UTC)It's almost as if they've looked at the structure of such novel competitions as the Coupe de France de Football. Any club side in France can enter into their appropriate sub-regional round, in which there are precisely enough games to fill the regional quota. In the regional rounds, there are precisely enough games to fill the sub-national quota, and there are precisely enough of those to make the national competition a round of 64 in early January.
Normandy, for instance, is allowed to send eight sides into the sub-national round. Though there are 128 clubs entering from the region, some are from higher divisions and claim exemption to a later round. (Compare to poker players able to buy in directly to the competition, if you will). Others are from départements with fewer entries. The net result: a first-round of 67 matches, a second-round of 80, and diminishing from there.
So long as the eight names are available for the sub-national round, the FFF doesn't care when the matches are played. This particularly applies for the satellite tournaments in the departements-outre-mer, where the winners enter in the sub-national round.