Is a MONRAD type draw supported?

Yes. You can set up an event with a draw type of KO draw with multiple plates (MONRAD).

A MONRAD draw is similar to a standard Knock Out (KO) draw except that at every round the losers of the match are pitched against each other.  The advantage being that all players get to play a number of matches. The tournament results in a ranking order of all players which can also be more satisfactory.

MMM also supports a KO draw with a plate emanating from just the 1st round. This guarantees at least 2 matches for every player. Juxtaposed to this, it should be noted that where a MONRAD draw has to involve byes (i.e. when the number of participants is not a power of 2), then some players may have fewer matches to play as losers of the 1st round get entered into the main "plate" section that would have fewer players. In fact, where the number of participants is just one more than a power of 2, for example 9, then the loser of their first round match (from the bottom ranked two players) would be their only game and they would immediately be ranked last in the tournament.

For this reason, participant numbers should be such that the number of byes in the 1st round are at a minimum or none. That said, MMM happily supports any number of entrants in a MONRAD tournament.

In fact, we have 2 MONRAD versions and the "no byes" version is a more compact presentation that maximises the number of matches played by all players that somewhat mitigates  the inevitable reduction of matches played by some participants when the entrant numbers are not a power of 2.

As per the article on tournament seeding, note that initial rounds are paired using the equal ability distance method. For example, an 8 player tournament would have the following 1st round matches:

• Seed 1 vs player 5
• Seed 2 vs player 6
• Seed 3/4 (player 3) vs player 7
• Seed 3/4 (player 4) vs player 8

Because a MONRAD tournament involves explicit byes, it should be noted that seeds 3/4 are randomly ordered as are players 5 to 8 in this example. So when we say that seed 1 plays player 5, we really mean they could be playing any player numbered 5 to 8. More accurately the 1st round matches are:

• Seed 1 vs player 5-8
• Seed 2 vs player 5-8
• Seed 3/4 vs player 5-8
• Seed 3/4 vs player 5-8

As with other KO draws, you can set play-by dates and pre-book the matches