Māmeido Kendo Cup 2024

Name: Māmeido Kendo Cup 2024
Start: 2024-05-11T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-12T16:00:00+02:00
Location: AWF Warszawa, Ul Marymoncka 34, Warszawa

Schedule

Sat May 11 2024 at 09:00 am to Sun May 12 2024 at 04:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

AWF Warszawa, Ul Marymoncka 34, Warszawa | Warsaw, MZ

🌊 Māmeido Cup 2024: Tides of Tradition, Waves of Change 🌊

Welcome to the second edition of Māmeido Cup, where the echoes of tradition meet the surging waves of change in the heart of Kendo excellence! 🤺🌊
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED! Thank you to everyone who signed up, we reached our 220 maximum number of participants for this year's edition!

Event description:
🌊 Māmeido Cup 2024: Tides of Tradition, Waves of Change 🌊
Welcome to the second edition of Māmeido Cup, where the echoes of tradition meet the surging waves of change in the heart of Kendo excellence! 🤺🌊 This year, we draw inspiration from the profound symbolism of water in Japanese culture – a powerful force that shapes traditions and welcomes change.
🤷‍♀️ Why Māmeido Cup?
Māmeido Cup is not like a regular tournament. Our Swiss-system format guarantees a sea of opportunities for every participant:
🌊 Guaranteed number of fights (11-13) for all participants: The swiss-ranking system ensures that all participants will have the same number of fights throughout the weekend. We are aiming for a big event for ca. 200 participants, with SIX shiai-jo, which will allow every player to have between 11-13 shiai-fights across the weekend. That is almost the same as two full regular KO-tournaments for every participant.
🌊 Ensure fights against similar-level opponents: The swiss-system adjusts the fighter match-ups, accounting for everyone’s performance. After each round, competitors will be matched with opponents based on their previous results - good results will lead to increasingly stronger opponents (who were also winning so far), while losing a fight will mean the next opponent will also have a similar track record (with a similar amount of losses). This ensures, that fighters will face opponents of a similar level, making the experience more enjoyable and rewarding in terms of measuring one’s progress
🌊 Non-elimination supporting an open fighting style: Since no one gets eliminated, and everyone has the same number of fights, there is less risk from fighting in an open way compared to other Taikai. Fighters can test their skills without risking a very short Taikai, making this a perfect Taikai to truly test your shiai.
🌊 Great feedback and innovative solutions from the first edition: As part of a feedback form after the first edition, 86% of participants gave the event a 10/10 score, with 95% of participants scoring the event 9/10 or higher! One of the main reasons for the positive reception was the Mameido Player App - a mobile phone app where players are able to track their results live after each round, see their ranking, next opponents and shiai-jo location, etc. We plan to launch a 2.0 edition of the App to make the experience even better!
🥇🥈🥉 Tournament structure & categories 🏆
There will be TWO seperate individual Taikai - one for Men, one for Women (i.e. no mixed-gender fights this year). Within each Taikai, all participants can face one another. The main prize will be the Open Rank Top 3 places, with additional sub-ranks based on age and grade calculated as well:
> Open rank - the main category
Subcategories calcualted based on participant registration info:
> Youth age (15 - 24)
> Senior age (>= 40)
> Kyu grade
> Dan 1-3 grade
An additional Special "Most improved" Prize will be given to the person, which will have the best Open Ranking improvement between Saturday end-of-day to Sunday end-of-day!
🕒 Be quick to register! 🌟
Register for Māmeido Cup 2024 as soon as possible - in order to ensure high level of organization and a minimum 11 fights per person we will have to limit the number of participants. The registration will be open until 200-220 participants OR 14th of April.
In case of any questions, please contact the Warsaw Kendo Club at: [email protected]