Target Schedule & Format
This is the proposed schedule assuming we hit our 16 team per division target. Historically the Women's division has been smaller, so in the likely event we don't hit this target, the schedule space will be distributed to Mixed or Men's.
Round timings are the same for any schedule, with Men's and Women's in the early rounds and Mixed in the later rounds (opposite of 2025).
Tournament Structure
The 16-team schedule has 4 pools: two power pools and two regular pools. The bottom two finishers in the power pools play a crossover against the top two finishers in the regular pools. Winners of the crossover join the top-two from each power pool in the championship bracket, and remaining teams go to a 9th-place bracket. Both brackets are single elimination — no backdoor games.
Saturday
Pool play, plus the Men's and Women's crossover games between the power pools and regular pools.
Sunday
Brackets for Men's and Women's, with a bye for Women's to fit the Mixed crossover, then the Mixed bracket.
Note: There is an option to move the Mixed crossover games to Saturday evening, which would end Saturday at 7:30 PM but move the Sunday end time up from 5:15 PM to 3:30 PM. Survey results indicated this may be preferred.
