The Wrestling Event Planner

Run a wrestling event on time: every bout counted in the format you choose, byes to the top seeds, mats and rings timed, one real intermission, and the bell time worked back from the building's curfew

LetsTalkWrestling's calculators each answer one question, and on their own they leave gaps. The Tournament Bracket calculator counts single-elimination bouts and says in its own note that consolation rounds and other formats add more, without counting them. The Match Card Duration calculator adds its intermission to every gap between matches and leaves entrances out. Nothing turns a count of bouts into time on the mats you have, or into a bell time the building's curfew allows. The Wrestling Event Planner puts the tools in the order an event happens. It counts the bouts in every format: in the example, ten brackets of 103 wrestlers are 93 bouts single elimination and 186 to 196 double elimination. It gives the byes to the top seeds and checks the draw. It times a slot, not a bout, and runs the brackets in waves across the mats: 4 h 10 min on 4 mats, 2 h 35 min on 7, and an 8th mat saves nothing. For a show it adds an entrance to every match and charges the intermission once: eight matches the calculator reads as 2 h 16 min run 3 h 2 min, and a bell set from the short figure empties the building 42 minutes after the curfew. Every figure is computed by the site's own tools from examples you replace with your own; the wave model and the buffer are planning models, called that. Your rulebook sets bout length, rest and medical requirements; the planner treats the rest as a floor and adds medical cover from the first bell to the last and the venue's posted capacity. It teaches no moves or training and gives no weight-cutting advice, odds or betting. Included: 7 steps, four printable working pages, a bracket reference from 2 to 32 entrants, a quickstart, and a personalised sheet worked from the figures you enter in the tournament bracket, match card duration and tale of the tape calculators.

Look inside

Two full pages from the planner, exactly as printed. Click either to read it at full size before you decide.

What is in it

• The One-Loss Rule: bouts = entrants minus 1, counted round by round and across a whole field
• The Format-Count Rule: single elimination, a third-place bout, double elimination and round robin, counted before you choose
• The Bye-to-the-Top Rule: byes placed on the top seeds in round 1, and two checks that catch a bad draw
• The Slot Rule: a bout plus its changeover, measured, never regulation time
• The Idle-Mat Rule: the day worked wave by wave on 3 to 8 mats, with the rulebook's rest as a floor
• The One-Intermission Rule: a run sheet with an entrance for every match, one intermission and a buffer
• The Curfew-Back Rule: bell time, doors and load-in worked back from the time the building must be empty, with medical cover confirmed
• Four working pages: a draw sheet, a mat plan, a run sheet and tale of the tape cards for the program
• A bracket reference: bracket size, byes, rounds and bouts in every format for 2 to 32 entrants
• A personalised sheet worked from the figures you enter in the tournament bracket, match card duration and tale of the tape calculators

The planner picks up where the free Tournament Bracket Calculator leaves off. The calculator counts single-elimination bouts and notes that other formats add more; the planner counts them for every format, gives the byes to the top seeds, and works out how long the day takes on the mats you have. For a show it takes the Match Card Duration Calculator's bell-to-bell minutes, adds an entrance for every match and one intermission, and works the bell time backward from the venue's curfew, with a Tale of the Tape card for the program. It teaches no moves or training and gives no odds or betting advice. The worked figures are examples.