Schedule & Formatting

Double elimination bracket gives a team the chance to come back and win after a loss since they mustlose twice! The first-round winners proceed into the Winner bracket and the losers proceed into the Loser bracket. The Winner bracket is conducted in the same manner as a single-elimination tournament, except that the losers of each round "drop down" into the Loser bracket.

Some rounds of the Loser bracket can not occur until a Winner round has happened. A 16 team double elimination bracket is 8 rounds opposed to 4 rounds if it was single elimination. Plan for time accordingly!

Format

Pool play - Pool play consists of all teams being put into pools of 7 or 8 (can do smaller pools if needed). Each team plays all other teams in their pool once. We suggest games to 15, win by 2, cap at 21 - this should take roughly 12-15 minutes per game. See the game order resource for more information.

Bracket play - Use results from pool play to determine seeds for the elimination bracket. Make sure you have a system to record and calculate rankings. See the calculating and reporting scores resources. Bracket play should be a best of three game series to 15 or 21 (dependent on timing). Each round will take roughly 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Schedule

This format is a really fun and social way to run a tournament. Players sign up individually and will team up with a bunch of different partners. As the day goes on players will be grouped with people of similar skill levels.

Format