EXL - not truly double elimination

[goose]

After checking out the schedule/seeding for Paris EXL - it has become obvious that, while we are playing a double elimination tournament - it is only 99% correct.

In a TRUE double elim set-up - the "loser champion" (the team that makes it to the final games after losing one game) is required to beat the "winning champion" (the team that hasn't lost a game at all) TWICE.

The reasoning is - the winning champ has not lost any games, and by declaring the "losing champion" tournament winner if they beat the "winning champ" in the first game - you now have 2 teams that have only lost 1 game each - so neither should technically be out of the tournament.

Any thoughts??

goose

 

[noop]

I understand what you are getting at, and based on LA, I'm sure the Naughty Dogs agree with you. But you need to think of double elimination as a way of determining who plays the championship match, not who wins the tournament. The same way the prelims in 7-man determine who moves on to Sunday, not who wins the tournament (unless you are playing the 2004 Open de Catalunya in Tossa de Mar).

Originally posted by Nick Brockdorff
.....double elimination SUCKS as a system !

I agree. After you play your EXL matches in the NXL format and there is no winner for the event, you can all hold hands while dancing in circles.