So I want to host a double elimination tournament. I know that you have to lose twice to be eliminated, and that there’s a winners and a losers bracket. But I don’t really understand how it works, especially with its matchups. Reading its Wikipedia article made me even more confused…there’s “minor” and “major” loser rounds?
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Forget all that, double elminiation is actually super easy. You have a winners bracket: Teams that have not lost. And a loser’s bracket: Teams with 1 loss.
All teams start in the winners brack (i.e. no losses). All winning teams stay. All losing teams go to the losers bracket. A next round goes. Winning teams play other winning teams, losers play losers.
A team in the losers bracket who wins, stays alive. A team in the losers brack who loses, is out. The winner of the losers match, plays the loser of the winners match. The winners bracket now consists again of only teams that have not loss.
This continues. Until only 2 teams remain, which is what makes this style unique.
One of those teams is still in the winners brackets and one is in the losers brack. Remember, this is double elimination. You must lose TWICE to get kicked out. That means the finals are unbalanced. The winner-bracket team only needs to win once to win the tournament, but the loser-bracket team must win twice, because the winners bracket team still gets its two losses.
Double elimination tournaments are really good for allowing the “best” teams to reach the final stages of the tournament and to avoid a case where two top teams play each other early and one gets eliminated, and thus could have for example, the final game being between the top team and a team that isn’t as good, as maybe the top team knocked out all of the other good teams. Double elimination allows teams to keep going, so that in the end you are much more likely to have the two best teams playing
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