Showing posts with label double elimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label double elimination. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Understanding Pickleball "Double Elimination format"

As the pickleball tournament season approaches, it is good to know what a double elimination tournament is.
A double-elimination tournament is broken into two sets of brackets, the Winners Bracket and Losers Bracket (W and L Brackets for short; also sometimes Upper Bracket and Lower Bracket, respectively). After the first round, the winners proceed into the W Bracket and the losers proceed into the L Bracket. The W Bracket is conducted in the same manner as a single-elimination tournament, except of course that the losers of each round "drop down" into the L Bracket. Even though a team has lost 1 game, they still have a chance to compete in the finals.