A few simple rules ... limitless possibilities

7 Planning a Tournament
 7.1 Date and Venue
 7.2 Format
 7.3 Publicity
 7.4 Timetable
 7.5 Prizes
 7.6 Entry Fee
 7.7 Miscellaneous Points
 7.8 Longer Events
 7.9 British Go Congress
8 Running a Tournament
 8.1 Before the Tournament
 8.2 General Points
 8.3 Organising The Draw
 8.4 Presenting The Results
 8.5 Side Events
 8.6 After the Tournament
9 The McMahon System
 9.1 Overview
 9.2 The Bar
 9.3 Handicaps
 9.4 Sleeping Players
 9.5 Forfeits
 9.6 Overall winner
10 Producing the Draw
 10.1 Schedule
 10.2 Pre-registration
 10.3 Workplace
 10.4 Registration On The Day
 10.5 Closing The Register
 10.6 Changes to the Register
 10.7 Pairing For Round 1
 10.8 Results
 10.9 Finale
11 Other Tournament Systems
 11.1 Simple knockout
 11.2 Double elimination knockout (Judan system)
 11.3 Generalised knockout
 11.4 Zone systems
 11.5 Swiss system
 11.6 Zoned Swiss system
 11.7 Round Robin
 11.8 Swiss knockout
 11.9 Mixed Systems
A Default Rules for BGA Tournaments
 A.1 Komi
 A.2 Triple Ko
 A.3 Overtime
B Useful Contacts
 B.1 Email addresses
 B.2 Links
C Sample Press Release
 The 2001 Three Peaks Go Tournament