1. Do the draw Friday night, estimate the rankings of the teams, and put them in the list ordered in descending rank. This list will be placed in the leftmost column of a scheduling table (see below for idea of what this table will look like).
2. Round 1 will match up teams in upper part of each division with teams in lower part of each division: IF LOWER RANKED TEAM BEATS UPPER RANKED TEAM, THEY EXCHANGE PLACES IN THE LIST IN NEXT COLUMN
3. Round 2 will match teams in upper half of upper division with other teams in upper half of that division: WINNERS vs. WINNERS. Teams in lower half of lowest division plays other teams in lower half of lower division: LOSERS vs. LOSERS. Lower half of higher divisions plays upper half of next lower division: LOSERS vs. WINNERS. Again, if a lower-ranked team wins, the 2 teams exchange places in the list: This is the only chance for changing divisions.
4. Round 3 will again match up teams where upper half of each division plays lower half, but different combinations than round 1. Round 3 is completed on Saturday.
5. (optional wildcard round) Keep only 6 teams with best record in each division for this and following rounds: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6. Team #1 and #2 have a bye. Quarterfinals: #3 vs. #5 and #4 vs. #6. Winners go to next round. Others drop out. Winners are the NEW #3, #4. These take place between 8 and 10 on Sunday morning.
6. Semi-finals: (each division): #1 vs. #3, #2 vs. #4. These take place between 9:15 and 11:15 on Sunday
7. Winners of prior round play in finals. Finals take place 11:30, 12, and 12:30 on Sunday

We can get 3 matches in for everybody in the round-robin part. Ideally, this format works when the number of teams is either 16 or 24, but can work with some fudging for any number of teams.

We should be able to do this for up to 48 participants, but would be difficult to fudge in mixed when the difference between men and women is more than 1 or 2. Here is an example with 16 teams. Left side of each cell is the row of the opponent, followed by whether team in this cell is playing up or down:

	ROUND 1	ROUND 2	ROUND 3	PLAYOFFS
1	5 down	3 down	6 down	BYE	3 SEMI	2 FINAL
2	6 down	4 down	7 down	BYE	4 SEMI	1 FINAL
3	7 down	1 up	8 down	5 WILDCARD	1 SEMI
4	8 down	2 up	5 down	6 WILDCARD	2 SEMI
5	1 up	9 down	4 up	3 WILDCARD
6	2 up	10 down	1 up	4 WILDCARD
7	3 up	11 down	2 up
8	4 up	12 down	3 up
2nd DIVISION:
9	13 down	5 up	14 down	BYE	11 SEMI	10 FINAL
10	14 down	6 up	15 down	BYE	12 SEMI	9 FINAL
11	15 down	7 up	16 down	13 WILDCARD	9 SEMI
12	16 down	8 up	13 down	14 WILDCARD	10 SEMI
13	9 up	15 down	12 up	11 WILDCARD
14	10 up	16 down	9 up	12 WILDCARD
15	11 up	13 up	10 up
16	12 up	14 up	11 up

This format requires a TOURNAMENT SITE MANAGER. He will move teams to next column in the schedule. For each round, the team checks where it is in the schedule (courts and times will be pre-assigned). The opponent will be the team in that column corresponding to the row number in the left of that cell (see table above). In the round robin part of tournament, if a higher ranked team wins, it continues on same row into next column. If it loses, it exchanges rows with the winning team in the next column. After the round robin, the tournament director will move the 6 teams with the highest scores in the 6 highest rows in each division (see table above). After each round following the wildcard round, the surviving teams of this single elimination part of tournament take the highest rows, until only 2 remain. The winner is circled after the final match.

Representatives of each match can write the scores of each match on the schedule sheet, but a site manager will be needed to transfer teams and running-scores to next round. The score for each match is a follows: if the team won, 9. If the team lost: the number of games it won (can be anywhere from 0 to 8). The site manager will determine who continues on Sunday in case of ties (using whatever information is available at the time -- if still tied, he may supervise a short playoff).

As the following information must be in EACH cell of the schedule table, the round robin and play-off sections should probably be on different sheets of paper:

1. Next match opponent (index in list)
2. Team name (i.e. Joe and Sally might be a team)
3. Court# and time
4. Score of match after played
5. Running score of that team

A 4th round could be added on Saturday on a low enough turnout: 36 or less players. Since we are drawing more than this number, and less than 48, it is likely that we will be limited to 3 rounds of round robin, unless the wildcard quarterfinals is eliminated. If more than 48 sign up, we will probably need to eliminate the wildcard round.