Double Knockout Tournament Format

   

Double Knockout Tournament Format, also known as Double Elimination, is a format for pairing players to play games in tournaments.

In the first round, players are paired to play. Those players that lose are moved to the losers bracket. Those players that win, are promoted to the second round. This second round and all its subsequent rounds are known as the winners bracket. This procedure is repeated till only a single player remains. This player is the winner of the winners bracket.

The losers bracket players play single knockout tournament. The winner of that tournament is winner of the losers bracket.

The winner of the winners bracket plays the winner of the losers bracket to determine the winner of the double knockout tournament.

The number of rounds required is the ceiling of the log base 2 of the number of players in the tournament plus one more round in which the winners of each bracket play to determine the tournament winner. (Example: 30 players necessitates 5 rounds of play because 2^5 == 32.) As a result, unless the number of players is equal to a power of 2, some players will play one more round than the others. Often the strongest players are not paired in the first round.

See also [ext] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-elimination_tournament for more information.


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