Guide to Tabbing in Excel

For most small tournaments, it will be easier to generate the draw in Excel than to worry about a customised program.  A (very) basic draw generating spreadsheet can be found below.

At its simplest, draw generation in Excel simply consists of listing each team with the number of wins and speaker points, ranking them and then power-pairing.  More sophisticated versions take into account the number of affirmatives/negatives and can carry out 'one up, one down' calculations automatically.