(ix) Finance Committee: This committee is assigned to make the budget for the eventand handle the expenses.
(x) Refreshment Committee :This committee is formed to profile refreshment to the participants.
A tournament is a competition involving relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sports or game. It is a series of contests with several rounds in which many contestants compete, individually or as a team to decide the winner. In other words, tournament is a series of contests in which a number of contestants compete and the one that prevails through the final round or that finishes with the best record is declared the winner.
A series of sports competitions, in which, a team finally wins and rest of the participating teams lose the matches. It depends on various factors i.e... - No. of participating teams, availability of grounds and equipment, No. of days and funds.
Importance of tournament
1.The sportsman learns the discipline by playing tournaments.
2.The sportsman meets other sportsman at a single platform.
3.He learns ethical values such as honesty, fair play, respect for others.
4.Tournaments provides recreation to all, i.e... organizers, spectators, students.
Type of tournament:
Knock out:
In this type of tournament, the team once defeated, gets eliminated from the tournament. Only the winning teams contest in the next rounds. Opportunities are given to the winning players/teams.
League:
In single league tournament all participating teams compete once, with each other, where as in double league, each team plays with every as in double league, each team plays with every other team twice, without any consideration of victory or defeat.
Combination Tournaments:
Combination tournaments are organized in group or zonal matches. Whenever there is a large number of teams, combination tournaments facilitate the Physical Education Teachers, job. It gives them elbow room to try out new experiments.
There are mainly four types of combination tournaments:
1.Knock out cum Knock out
2.League cum league
3.Knock out cum league
4.League cum Knock out
Knock out tournaments:
In knock out tournaments the teams which gets eliminated gets automatically eliminated from the tournament.
In this type of tournament , if a team is defeated once, it gets eliminated. Only the winners continue in the competition. It is the fastest method to know about the winner team in the tournament.
Seeding a Team:-
The sorting of the teams and fitting them in the fixtures so that the stronger teams do not meet each other in earlier rounds is known as Seeding. This method is good if we know the real strong teams. The organizers should find out the real strong teams from the previous tournaments or old records figure starting a new tournament.
Before seeding
Bye:
Bye is a privilege given to a team, genre by drawing lots, exempting it from plays first round.
Bye:- The advantage given to a team usually by drawing a lot, and exempting it from paying a match in the first round is known as Bye. These are given to a specific number of teams in the first round. The number of byes are decided by subtracting the number of teams from the next higher number which is in power of two’s.
Bye Next Higher No-no of Team [2n-no of teams]
The procedure of giving byes is as follows:
The first bye is given to last team of lower half.
The second bye is given to first team of upper half.
The third bye is given to first team of lower half
The fourth bye if given to last team of upper half.
The next bye or byes will be given in the same order as described above.
Advantages of knock out tournament:
These are less expensive.
Helpful in enhancing standard of sports.
It requires less time to complete the tournament.
Minimum no. of officials are required.
Disadvantages of knock out tournament:
There are many chances of elimination of good teams in preliminary rounds.
There are many chances of weak teams to enter in the final round.
Spectators may not have enough interest in the final round.
1.4 Methods of Preparing Fixtures for Knock-out Tournaments:-
1.Total number of teams participating in the tournament
2.Total number of matches to be played in the tournament
Formula for calculating number of matches=n-1,where n is the total number of teams participating in the tournament.
3.Total number of rounds played in the tournament depends upon two things:-
a.The number of teams playing in the tournament
b.The higher nearest number from the total number of teams of power of two’s =
4.Method of determining the number of teams in upper half and lower half:-
a.If he number of teams is even, then equal number of teams will be divided in bothhalves
i.e...- n/2,where n is the total number of teams.
b.If the number of teams is odd, the following method is applied:
Number of teams in upper half=(n+1)/2,where n=number of teams.
Number of teams in lower half=(n-1)/2,where n=number of teams
5.The number of byes is a knock-out tournament are decided by subtracting totalnumber of teams from the next higher nearest number in power of two’s
League tournament:
In this type each team plays with every other team once if it is a single league tournament and each team plays with every other team twice if it is a double league tournament.
Cyclic method:
In cyclic method, If the number of teams is in even number, the team number 1 is fixed on the top of right hand side and then other team numbers in ascending order consecutively downward and then upward on the left hand side and then from the next round teams will rotate in clockwise direction. If the number of teams is odd then the bye is fixed on the top of right hand side and rest of the procedure will remain same. If the number of team is even number than number of rounds will be (N-1). If the number of teams is odd number then number of rounds will be equal to number of teams.
(b) Cyclic Method : In cyclic method, if the number of teams is even, the teamnumber 1 is fixed on the top of right hand side and other teams in ascending order consecutively downward and then upward on the left side and rotate them clockwise. If the number of teams is odd, then bye is fixed on top right side and the rest procedure remains same.The number of rounds in case of even number of teams will be n -1, where n = number ofteams.
The number of rounds in case of odd number of teams will be n, where n = number ofteams.
Example 1. Draw a fixture of 6 teams on league basis according to cyclic method.
Solution: Total number of teams = 6
Total number of matches
Number of rounds = n-1 = 6-1 = 5 rounds.
(a) Stair-case Method: In stair-case method, the fixtures are made just like a ladder ora stair- case. In this method, no bye is given to any team and there is no problem of even or odd number of teams.
1.5 A INTRAMURAL AND EXTRAMURAL:MEANING, OBJECTIVES AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE :
Meaning of Intramural:-
Intramural is derived from the Latin word’ Intra” and “muralist’.”Intra” means “within” and “Muralist” means ‘Waif .So we can say that the activities, which are performed within the walls or within the campus of an institution ,are called ‘Intramural”.
The intramural sports means competitions within the walls or within the school, i.e. being or occurring within the limits usually of a community, organization, or institution. This programme offers the school community the opportunity to participate in organized sports
competition. The rules of the games/ sports are modified accordingly, if needed.
Objectives of Intramural:-
• To provide opportunity to every student to participate in Games and Sports
• To develop Leadership Qualities among students
• To develop Feeling of Cooperation
• To provide Recreation
• To develop the Feeling of Sportsmanship
• To provide opportunity to learn a variety of games and Skills
• To provide opportunity to get Experience of Organization of Competitions
• To find out talented Sport persons
• To provide opportunity to Develop personality
Extramurals:
Extramural sports satisfy the need for structured sports activities between students from various schools, organizations, or institutions. Extramural means competitions outside walls or boundaries, as of a city or town or a university. These tournaments will be organized on a zonal, regional, state or national basis.eg. CBSE tournaments, SGFI tournaments etc.
Extramural is derived from the Latin words “Extra” and “Waif”. So, we can say that the activities which are performed outside the walls of an institution or school, are known as “extramural”.
Objectives of extramural:
¶ To provide Experience to Students
¶ To improve the Standard of Sports
¶ To broaden the Base of Sports
¶ To develop Sportsmanship and Fraternity
¶ To provide knowledge of New Rules and Advanced Techniques
Significance of intramurals and extramurals:
Helps in providing the ways and means for the development self esteem, citizenship, responsibility, sportsmanship, and skills in co-operative behavior.
Helps in providing take part in activities that encourages active participation, enjoyment, and fun without external pressure or reward.
Helps in providing to reinforce the concept that winning is less important than preparing to win. Losing should not be the same as failure, nor success the same as winning.
Helps in providing to determine participation by interest rather than skill, not limiting activities to the gifted or early maturing athlete.
Helps in providing opportunities for students and expose them to a wide variety of sports, skills and activities so that the may refine interest and make choices to suit their personal abilities and needs.
Helps in providing opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to actively engage in activities involving sports, recreation, and play while providing structure for an experimental education.
1.6 SPECIFIC SPORTS PROGRAMMME :
Sports and games programs are arranged in the world as well as in our country to promote the games and sports for a specific cause. Every country in the world has some or other cause for promoting specific sports programs.
The programs motivate and create the feeling to take part in these sports programs. People become health-conscious and try to remain fit and stay healthy for as long as possible. These specific sports programs are usually organized by the federations, state government, NGO etc. to create health consciousness among the people and take part in health-related sports programs.
More and more people of all age groups should take part in such sports programs. Specific sports programmes are such programmes of sports which are not usually related to competitions. These programmes have various objectives such as creating awareness among peoples regarding unity, health & diseases etc.
The various important specific programs are:-
l. SPORTS DAY–
A.School–Annual Sports Day
B.NATIONAL SPORTS DAY
2.HEALTH RUN: these are organised by health departments to ameliorate the standard of health in a country along with raising funds for charity.
3.RUN FOR FUN: It is also organised to spread the message among masses toremain healthy and fit. It may be organised to motivate the people to remain fit.
4.RUN FOR UNITY: It is organised to show unity and peace among the people of different religions. Its purpose may be national and international integration and brotherhood.
5.RUN FOR SPECIFIC CAUSE: This is the run related to specific or noble cause.Most of the social non- profit organisations organises these runs for creating awareness about AIDS, Educating the girl child, Cancer, etc.Mumbai and Chennai Marathons are organisedfor such noble purpose.
