TT-Swiss-Tie
Online tournament software for the Swiss System with ties
Welcome. You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking for a free online tool that lets you run a table tennis tournament using the Swiss-System with ties.
Possible results: 4:0, 3:1, 2:2, 1:3, 0:4.
2 points for a win, 1 point for a tie. Everything else works the same as in the regular version. TT-Swiss
The TT-Swiss-Tie is equally suitable for club championships and fun tournaments. The advantage of the Swiss-System is that every player has the same number of matches.
TT-Swiss-Tie can be set up in just one second – simply click the "Start TT-Swiss-Tie" button and you can start your first table tennis tournament right away.
- No registration required for up to 8 players
- No installation needed (runs online in your browser!)
- Completely anonymous
- Internet connection
- Browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera,..)
- Smartphone, tablet, or computer (PC, Mac)
- Independent of the operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac)
- You can choose to play either 2 or 4 sets. Possible results for 4 sets: 4:0, 3:1, 2:2, 1:3, 0:4. Possible results for 2 sets: 2:0, 1:1, 0:2.
- Add players manually
- Playing system: Berlin Swiss system
- Set the number of rounds yourself (up to 8)
- 8 to 64 players, 8 of them free, more with registration and an additional fee.
- Enter results – the ranking table is updated automatically
- Mobile friendly
- No installation required – neither an app on your phone nor software on your PC/Mac
- Sharing: an extra page for non-players to follow results live
- Monitor: Track current results and table rankings on a monitor
- Decentralized management: any player who knows the tournament link can enter results on their phone, e.g. the winner of each set.
- Print templates with score sheets including player names.
8196 Played Matches in TT-Swiss-Tie
Frequently Asked Questions
TT-Swiss-Tie works without registration or login.
Simply click the "start TT-Swiss-Tie" button and you're ready to go.
Don't worry — anyone you don’t share the generated TT-Swiss-Tie URL with cannot see your player names or results.
You can register voluntarily. Then you'll see all tournaments you’ve started in your dashboard.
When you start a TT-Swiss-Tie (click the " start TT-Swiss-Tie" button), you must remember the unique TT-Minicup URL (or share it with someone). Otherwise, you will no longer have access to your TT-Minicup with already played matches.
If you register on TT-Match, you will find all your created tournaments in your dashboard and you won't need to remember the unique URLs separately.
If you want to enter up to 64 players in TT-Swiss-Tie, registration and payment (see Prices) are required.
| Berliner "Swiss System" (BSS) |
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| How does the Berliner "Swiss System" work? |
In the Swiss system, every player plays the same number of matches, regardless of how many players are registered for the tournament. Before the tournament starts, the number of matches per player is fixed (e.g. 6). This implies that the tournament is played over 6 rounds. The next round only starts once all players have finished their match in the current round. Care is taken that no player meets the same opponent twice.
After each round, a new table ranking is created. In the original Swiss system, the first in the table plays the second, the third plays the fourth, and so on. In the Berliner Swiss system, however, in round 1 the top-ranked player plays the first player of the lower half, the second-ranked player plays the second of the lower half, and so on. This is also known as a "cup" pairing. From round 2 onwards, BSS uses an algorithm that pairs players of similar strength. Players are considered equally strong if they have the same number of wins.
| The algorithm of the Berliner Swiss System (BSS) |
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| How does the BSS algorithm decide who plays whom in the next round? |
After each round, the BSS algorithm generates all possible combinations of who could play whom simultaneously in the next round. From all of these combinations, the one that best satisfies the requirements of a "Swiss system" is selected for the next round:
- First, all combinations are discarded that contain a match which has already been played in one of the previous rounds.
- The remaining combinations are scored, and the best one is chosen with regard to pairing players of similar strength (players should have as close as possible the same number of wins).
| Scoring a combination |
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| How is a combination scored? |
Each match in a combination receives a penalty score from the algorithm based on the difference in the number of wins between the two players. Matches between players with the same number of wins receive no penalty points at all, because these are exactly the kinds of pairings we are looking for for the next round. The larger the difference in wins between two players in a match, the more penalty points the match receives (10 to the power of 2 × win difference). The penalty points of all matches in a combination are summed. The combination with the fewest penalty points is the one used for the next round.
| Implementation |
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| You would like to implement the Berliner Swiss System (BSS)? |
The algorithm for BSS originates from tt-match (September 2024).
BSS is used in the "TT Swiss" tournament format on tt-match.
If you have questions about the algorithm, feel free to contact me by e-mail.
Berlin, 20/09/2024
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