(05-26-2013 06:18 PM)chiefsfan Wrote: One thing I would do to the format, is I would eliminate the idea of having 2 4 team brackets. Mix the brackets together. This way it is impossible to play a team more than twice in the tourney
The way you do that is to make the losers bracket winner of the first group of 4 play the winners bracket champ of the 2nd group of 4. You could potentially play a team twice, but never three times, which generally helps save some of the RPI mess.
DE doesn't have pools, it's all one bracket. It's kind of hard for anyone to play a team 3 times in a DE tourney.
1 vs 8
2 vs 7
3 vs 6
4 vs 5
for argumants sake all the top seeds win and sit out
losers bracket
5 vs 7
6 vs 8
5 & 6 win, 7 & 8 go home
winners bracket
1 vs 4
2 vs 3
1 & 2 win, 3 & 4 now losers bracket and play 5 & 6
3 vs 5
4 vs 6
all top seeds still win (as a scenario) so 4 teams are now left.
No one has played anyone even twice yet but you are down to 4 teams.
1 vs 3
2 vs 4
and 3 & 4 already have 1 loss
3 beats 1
2 beats 4
4 goes home. 2 is in the championship game and 1 plays 3 again as losers bracket. Loser goes home.
1 wins and plays 2. They haven't played yet and will only play 2 games if 2 wins the first game on championship day. Even if 1 & 2 won the "semis", they both go into a 2 game championship without having met.
It's an example of how we played DE tourney's. Not sure I ever attended one where 2 teams ever played another team 3 times. It just doesn't work. Two teams can't come out unscathed so someone always has a loss going into the actual CG.