Tournament with friends

Hi. I'm hosting a little tournament with my friends, currently we're eight people. The idea is that everyone play each other twice, once as white and once as black. And maybe we'll do a final showdown of the 4 best scoring players to a play-off, it haven't been decided yet. 

My question is if someone has any suggestion or advice on a score system for this tournament?

The tournament will be played over several days or maybe even weeks. And there is a chance that all games won't even be played at all. I'm trying to make the most fair score-system possible. 

Any answer is appreciated. =)

If everyone plays everyone then run it like a classic chess.com tournament. See https://support.chess.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1444837-how-do-chess-com-online-tournaments-work-

You get 1 point for a win and 1/2 for a draw. There is a way to calculate a tie break in case there is a draw. This is a called a round-robin system.

The alternative is a swiss system -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament

In this, you have N rounds. If you have 8 people and everyone plays everyone (round robin) you need 7 rounds (or 14 if you play white and black). If you don't think you can get all the rounds in play a swiss system.

Thanks for the reply corum. 

We will use the round robin system, scoring 1 point on a draw and 2 points on a win. (Just to make it more neat.) If some games isn't played I'll make a system which calculates potential points on the "unplayed" games and brew a magical solution potion. We'll see how it goes.

Does anyone know of a printable a4 template for a 8-man round robin? Can't find any nice ones on google. They're either already filled or not enough slots.

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