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| LITTLE LEAGUE ONTARIO APPROVED TOURNAMENT FORMATS | |
|---|---|
| TEAMS | APPROVED FORMAT |
| 2 | Best 2-of-3 |
| 3 | Round-Robin, 2-team playoff |
| 4 | Round-Robin, 2-team playoff |
| 5 | Round-Robin, 3 team playoff |
| 6 | Round-Robin, 4 team playoff |
| 7 | Double-Elimination |
| 8 | Round-Robin (Two 4-team pools), 4 team playoff OR Double-Elimination |
| 9 | Double-Elimination |
At the Ontario AGM in October 2005, item 10C:
(1) "Motion Jim T, seconded Joe V, that tournament formats be changed to 6 or less teams must play round robin, 7 or 9 teams must play double knock out, 8 teams can play double knock out or round robin, all approved formats are available on the Ontario Little League website. Carried."
(2) "Motion Jim T, seconded Jim D, that in 6, 5, 4 and 3 team round robin formats that the top 2 teams only advance to the championship game (no semi) and the Little League Canada tie-breaking method be used to establish 2nd place if necessary. Carried."
At the Ontario AGM in October 2006, item 9A:
(3) "Motion Joe V, seconded Bob A, to adopt the LL Canada 4, 5 & 6 team round robin format. Carried".
Note: Item (3) above required Ontario to use the LL Canada playoff format as well. This meant more teams making the playoff round, effectively nullifying most of item (2) above. In 2006 and in 2007, the Ontario Senior championship used the expanded playoff as required.
At the Ontario AGM in October 2008:
(4) I will reproduce the item from the Minutes when it they are available. To paraphrase, we changed the 6-team round-robin playoff format to be a simple 4-team single-elimination playdown of 1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3, with the winners playing the next day. This nullifies the use of the Little League Canada playoff format.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 1:46 PM