Tournaments ·
The wall chart draws the roads to the final
Once a knockout reaches the semifinals, every player still in it gets their whole run drawn on the wall chart in bold ink, blue for the top half and pink for the bottom, right up to the board they're on now.
The short version
- From the semifinals, each player still in it has their road drawn bold
- Top half in blue, bottom half in pink: you can see the final coming
- Everyone else's lines step back, so the roads read from across the room
Early in a knockout the wall chart is a busy sheet: sixteen matches, byes, ticks and crossings-out. By the semifinals the room only cares about four people. So now the chart does too.
Every player still in it gets their whole run drawn in bold ink, from their first match to the board they’re on now: blue for the top half, pink for the bottom. Their names go the same colour, and everyone else’s lines step back. In the final it’s one blue road against one pink, meeting on the canary card. Then the champion’s run lights up, as it always has.
Tap any name and you still get that player’s path, in the room, on the console or on the club TV.