Hello.

On another forum, I plan on running a tournament - a battle of the bands, if you will. Basically, there's a whole list of bands and the members vote for them before we whittle it down to just one - the winner.

At first there's going to be a list of about 200/300 bands and they'll be split into groups of ten and each member will assign the bands in each group a certain number of points.

For their favourite they will give 10 points, then 9 points for second place, eight for third etc. until their least favourite of the group gets 1 point.

All the points will be then added up and the bottom three of each group will be eliminated. This means approximately 60 bands will be eliminated in the "group stage."

Now, this is where Excel comes in.

For the remaining ~140 bands, they will go head to head, knocking eachother out in the process.

What I require is a way to set it up so that I can paste the fixtures from Excel to a forum very much the same as this one, let the members of the forum copy the list and marking which one they see as the winner. Either by bolding the winner, putting points like Radiohead 1 - 0 Muse or any other way that makes it possible for me to use Excel to count the scores. I want to copy the lists sent to me by the forum members back into Excel and then for Excel to calculate who wins (and, if possible, by how many.)

Firstly, is this possible?
If so, how?

If you don't quite understand what I'm asking for, say so and I'll try to clarify.

Thanks a lot for any help.

If I can get Excel to count for me, it will save a lot of time!