Format: 5 Strike Group Knockout, using Fair Strikes (0,1,1,2), (0,1,2), (0,2).
At the start of the first round, players will be randomly paired into 4 player and 3 player groups and a randomly chosen game will be assigned to each group.
The winner of each game will not take a strike. In a 4 player group, 2nd and 3rd will get 1 strike and 4th will get 2 strikes. In a 3 player group, 2nd will get 1 strike and 3rd will take 2 strikes. In the event of a 2 player game, 2nd will take 2 strikes.
At the beginning of round 2, players will be paired using the Swiss format where players with 1 strike will be paired against other players with 1 strike as much as possible