Winter World Cup WINNER - poweewee (Philippines)

[Thrutchy]

(02-01-2013 05:32 AM)Harti Wrote:  

(02-01-2013 05:00 AM)Thrutchy Wrote:  Here's another idea: go double-elimination. The 2nd place finishers in the qualifiers would start the first "losers" bracket round. The winner's bracket would look identical to the original rules.

Hah, I wanted to bring this one up earlier. However there would have to be another final after the final, enhancing the current KO bracket by one more round technically. And therefore it would make more sense to seed the runner-ups into the groups from group stage. It's the same length except more rewarding for the group winners.

Yep. Also, the "losers" bracket would absorb losers from the winners bracket, so qualifying winners would eventually take advantage of that - except the ones that get to the final round.

The only players negatively impacted by sending 2nd place qualifiers to a losing bracket and forming double-elimination would be the players getting to the very final round of the original rules. Otherwise, it seems like a win-win for everybody else. Since the losers bracket goes in parallel, it probably won't have too much impact on the duration of the tournament. You could make the group play in the losers bracket keep only 1 per group to keep the losers bracket smaller. Absorbing losers from the winners bracket could use 3-way round robin instead of simple elimination.