Alyssa Therese P.

Abella ABM-11

*Single Elimination Tournament

DEFINITION

A single-elimination tournament, also called a knockout, cup or sudden death

tournament, is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match or
bracket is immediately eliminated from winning the championship or first prize in the
event. This does not always mean that the defeated competitor will not participate
further in the tournament; in some such tournaments, consolation or "classification"
contests are subsequently held among those already defeated to determine the
awarding of lesser places, for example, a third place playoff. Where more than two
competitors can play in each match, such as in a shootout poker tournament, players
are removed when they can no longer play until one player remains from the group.
This player moves on to the next round. A simple way to describe a single-elimination
tournament is that the winner of each match moves on and the loser fails to progress in
the tournament . Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament
system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage
called playoffs.

FORMULA

Single elimination Number of matches = N-1

THE USE OF THIS TOURNAMENT

Single elimination brackets are draw formats where the winner of each match advances to the next
round, and the loser is eliminated from winning the championship or first place in the division. The
round in a single elimination bracket refers to how far the competitor has advanced in the draw.
People refer to each round by its power of two. In larger draws for example, the round with 64
players remaining is called the round of 64, or 64’s. The next round with 32 participants remaining in
the bracket is called the round of 32, or 32’s. The round in which 16 remain is the round of 16, or
sweet 16. When only 8 teams remain, it is most commonly known as the Quarter finals, or the
quarters. Winners from that round move the semis, where only 4 competitors remain. The two
winners face off in the final round sometimes called the finals or championship match.
Single elimination brackets often have a 3rd place playoff, where the 2 semi final losers compete for
3rd place. Tournaments that are limited in time may choose not to play the 3rd place match and
award 3rd to both losers of the semi finals. In a single elimination bracket where the number of
players isn’t a power of two, some participants receive a bye in the first round. A Bye allows them to
advance into the next round without having to play and risk being knocked out of
competition.Seeding is extremely important with single elimination brackets and could change the
outcome of the final standings. A badly seeded draw could have the top two competitors in a division
meet in the first round. The second best competitor who should have gotten second would be out of
the tournament.
Byes are usually determined by a player’s seeding, with the highest ranked players getting the bye
as a reward for their previous performance. Some pro events can have multiple rounds of byes
where the lower ranked players have to win several matches before facing a ranked opponent.
A qualifier draw can also be used to accomplish the same thing.
Seeding single elimination brackets based on a ranking is often viewed as the fairest way to ensure
that the better teams play weaker teams in the early rounds, then better teams match-up in later
rounds to determine the champion.
The most common way to seed has the very best playing the very worst participant, then the second
best player playing the second worst player, etc. So in a single elimination brackets with 8
participants: seed 1 vs. seed 8, seed 2 vs. seed 7, seed 3 vs. seed 6, and seed 4 vs. seed 5. Some
tournaments choose to customize the seeding to create different matchups in later rounds to avoid
the same players competing in subsequent events in sports where rankings change more slowly.
A single elimination bracket can have a consolation bracket where players drop into after losing.

3 TEAM SINGLE ELIMINATION BRACKET

*Double Elimination Tournament

DEFINITION
A double-elimination tournament is one of the more
complicated to understand tournament styles, but it's a great
format for sports that often consist of series games. Unlike
the college basketball tournament, which is single-
elimination, a double-elimination tournament allows a team to
lose and still have a chance to win the tournament as a whole.

Rules of Double-Elimination

A double-elimination tournament is broken into two sets of brackets, generally called the
winner’s bracket and the loser’s bracket. Each team begins in the winner’s bracket, but
once they lose, they move to the loser’s bracket, where they still have an opportunity to
make it to the championship.
In a four-team bracket, which is what Division I college baseball uses in regional
tournaments, the first round consists of two games.
In the second round, the two teams that lost in the first round play in an elimination
game. The loser of that game is eliminated from the tournament. In addition, the two
teams that won in the first round play each other.
The third round is a single game featuring the team that lost the game between the first-
round winning teams and the team that won the game between the first-round losing
teams. The loser is eliminated from the tournament, while the winner goes on to the
championship.
The fourth round could be one or two games. If the team with one loss wins, both teams
will each have one loss, and another game will be played to determine the winner. If the
team with no losses wins, it is the champion. 

FORMULA
To determine the number of matches use the formula, N=(cx2)-2. For example
17 participants/teams times 2 equals 34 minus 2 equals 32 matches. And there is a
possibility there could be 33 matches if the loser bracket participant/team makes it to
the final and beats the winner bracket participant/team twice.

3 TEAM DOUBLE ELIMINATION BRACKET

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* Round robin

Definition

A round robin tournament is a type of tournament in which each participant plays every
other participant the same amount of times. If you have a large number of teams, you
can choose to break your tournament up into different pools.

How to use this tournament?

Decide the number of teams that will be participating in the tournament and print the
corresponding tournament form from above. You will play the round 1 games first until
all of the first round is complete, once every game from round one is complete you will
move on to round two. Continue this until all rounds have been played. The team with
the best record after all games are completed wins the tournament. If two teams are
tied the team that defeated the other team during play would place higher.
Bracketing
In a round robin tournament bracket, normally when there is a 2-way tie, the winner of
the game where the 2 tied competitors played against each other is awarded the higher
final standing. When 3 or more are tied within the division, it goes to games won minus
games lost. In sports where several games are in a match, winning in a smaller amount
of games as opposed to having to go to a tiebreaker awards the player winning quicker
the higher standing. When it is still tied, it usually goes by total points scored minus total
points scored against. Round Robin tournament brackets work equally well for
tournaments, leagues, and seasons if the number of division competitors fits your
available playing time.

3 TEAM ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENT BRACKET

 FORMULA

Round robin Number of matches =【N ×（N-1）】÷ 2