16.—The draw shall be conducted in the following manner:—Each Competitor's name shall be written on a separate card or paper, and these shall be placed in bowl or hat, drawn out one by by one at random, and copied on a list in the order in which they have been drawn.
17.—When the number of Competitors is 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or any higher power of 2, they shall meet in pairs, in accordance with the system shown by the following diagram:
| 1st Round. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | } | 2nd Round. | ||||
| } | ——————B | } | ||||
| B | } | } | 3rd Round. | |||
| } | ——————D | } | ||||
| C | } | } | } | |||
| } | ——————D | } | } | |||
| D | } | } | ||||
| } | ——————D | |||||
| E | } | } | ||||
| } | ——————F | } | } | |||
| F | } | } | } | |||
| } | ——————F | } | ||||
| G | } | } | ||||
| } | ——————H | } | ||||
| H | } | |||||
18.—When the number of Competitors is not a power of 2, there shall be byes in the first round. The number of byes shall be equal to the difference between the number of competitors and the next higher power of 2; and the number of pairs that shall meet in the first round shall be equal to the difference between the number of Competitors and the next lower power of 2. The byes, if even in number, shall be divided, as the names are drawn, in equal proportions at the top and bottom of the list, above and below the pairs; if uneven in number, there shall be one more bye at the bottom than at the top. Thus, in
SERIES 1.
From 5 to 8 Competitors.
With 5, there will be 1 bye at the top, and 2 byes at the bottom of the list, thus:
| 1st Round. | 2nd Round. | 3rd Round. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | (a bye) | ..................A | } | |||
| } | ||||||
| B | } | } | ——————A | } | ||
| } | ——————B | } | } | |||
| C | } | } | ||||
| } | ——————A | |||||
| D | (a bye) | ..................D | } | } | ||
| } | ——————E | } | ||||
| E | (a bye) | ..................E | } | |||