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Ione Hawke
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.07.21 23:58:00 -
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Today there was a discussion about tournament format on stream. Why not make it double elimination?
Double elimination has two brackets, one winners bracket and a losers bracket. When a team loses it drops to the losers bracket and can continue to progress. After losing its second match in the losers match it will be eliminated. Call winner loser bracket L and winner winners bracket W. The (semi-) final is between L and W, if W wins he is the winner of the tournament. However, if W loses he drops to losers brackets and next plays L for a second time.
The result is that basically everyone is allowed to lose one match. The final pairup is slightly awkward, because it is not clear if the W vs L match is indeed the final or semi-final.
I think this solves few problems that we experience with the current group, then single elimination setup
* every match matters
* no situation where an unfortunate matchup (either with group of doom, or matchup) can directly elimitate an otherwise very good team.
* more difficult to game and fix matches (?)
The number of matches is max 2n - 1 , so with 32 contestants that results in 63 matches, while current setup has 48 matches in group stage and then 15 in elimination stage for a total of 63 matches :). |
Zastrow
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2012.07.22 00:00:00 -
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I'm strongly arguing for double elimination, but we'll have to sit down and argue everything out after the tournament. |
Poetic Stanziel
Autocannons Anonymous
Late Night Alliance
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Posted - 2012.07.22 00:35:00 -
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This.
The problem I suppose is figuring out how to schedule it across 4 weekends. But maybe not that big a deal. As long as teams don't have to play more than one match per day until the last day.
I guess draw up the double elimination bracket, and then start figuring out which days each match takes place.
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