Prince of Tennis: Tournament Dates
Oct. 9th, 2005 02:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branchandrootI have listed two years worth of dates, here, since the Canon Year is irregular in places.
Of course, pinning down the dates for Canon Year is problematic to say the least. The summer of Canon Year has lasted about four years so far, and Konomi seems to have simply taken the appropriate dates from the real-time months of the years during which various tournaments were published. When he mentioned dates at all, that is. I have used 2004, real-time, for demonstration purposes.
There are a number of points that threw me for a loop to start with. Most have to do with the issue of seeding. Many thanks are do to the dear Genie, for talking this out with me and not minding my hair-tearing frustration.
Competitors that are seeded usually get to skip certain early rounds and have fixed places in the schedule that keep them from facing each other too early. This is true for the district preliminaries, Prefecturals and Nationals. In Regionals, however, the places of seeded schools are fixed but there is no skipping of rounds.
Prefecturals appear to have two levels of seeding, which I designate as high seeded and low seeded. Note that Prefectural R1 and R2, appear to take place on the first day, R3, R4 and QF appear to take place the second day, while SF and Finals are the third. The highly seeded schools do not, to the best of our calculations, have to attend the first day of Prefecturals, because they skip ahead to R3. The low seeded schools would have to attend the afternoon of the first day and play R2.
Regionals in Canon Year are atypical. Since it is announced, in the manga, that QF will be pushed back to the second day, due to how long the Seigaku v Hyoutei match takes, in the First Round, we can assume that Regionals are supposed to only take two days: R1 and QF on the first day; SF and F on the second, with QF Consolation and SF Consolation taking place the morning and afternoon, respectively, of the second day, also. Due to the long R1, in Canon Year, the second day featured QF and SF with QF Consolation in the afternoon, and F was pushed on to a third day along with SF Consolation.
The theory I'm working with, here, is that there are ranges of dates within which tournaments are supposed to fall.
Sleuthing
Of course, pinning down the dates for Canon Year is problematic to say the least. The summer of Canon Year has lasted about four years so far, and Konomi seems to have simply taken the appropriate dates from the real-time months of the years during which various tournaments were published. When he mentioned dates at all, that is. I have used 2004, real-time, for demonstration purposes.
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Confusing Parts
There are a number of points that threw me for a loop to start with. Most have to do with the issue of seeding. Many thanks are do to the dear Genie, for talking this out with me and not minding my hair-tearing frustration.
Competitors that are seeded usually get to skip certain early rounds and have fixed places in the schedule that keep them from facing each other too early. This is true for the district preliminaries, Prefecturals and Nationals. In Regionals, however, the places of seeded schools are fixed but there is no skipping of rounds.
Prefecturals appear to have two levels of seeding, which I designate as high seeded and low seeded. Note that Prefectural R1 and R2, appear to take place on the first day, R3, R4 and QF appear to take place the second day, while SF and Finals are the third. The highly seeded schools do not, to the best of our calculations, have to attend the first day of Prefecturals, because they skip ahead to R3. The low seeded schools would have to attend the afternoon of the first day and play R2.
Regionals in Canon Year are atypical. Since it is announced, in the manga, that QF will be pushed back to the second day, due to how long the Seigaku v Hyoutei match takes, in the First Round, we can assume that Regionals are supposed to only take two days: R1 and QF on the first day; SF and F on the second, with QF Consolation and SF Consolation taking place the morning and afternoon, respectively, of the second day, also. Due to the long R1, in Canon Year, the second day featured QF and SF with QF Consolation in the afternoon, and F was pushed on to a third day along with SF Consolation.
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Crunching the Numbers
The theory I'm working with, here, is that there are ranges of dates within which tournaments are supposed to fall.
| Month | Range | 2004 (Theoretical Canon Year) | 2005 (Theoretical Normal Year) |
| April | District - 4th week(end) (Sunday)? | 25th | 24th |
| May | Prefecturals - 3rd and 4th week(end)s (Sundays) | 23rd and 30th | 22nd and 29th |
| June | Prefecturals - 1st week(end) (Sunday) | 6th | 5th |
| July | Regionals - 2nd and 3rd week(end)s (middle two Sundays) | 11th, 18th and 25th | 17th and 24th |
| August | Nationals - 2rd or 3rd week (Sun-Wed) | 8th - 11th | 14th - 17th |
| September | Senbatsu - ? | ||
| October | |||
| November | |||
| December | |||
| January | |||
| February | |||
| March |
