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SEVENTEEN (17) TEAM DOUBLE
ELIMINATION - WHY DOUBLE ELIMINATION IS A JOKE? Hey, it's your money!
For years
coaches, teams and players veered away from single elimination formats, that
generally followed bracket play, because it only gave one opportunity at a
tournament title. One error, or a last second bucket, could sink your shot
at playing in the finals. The only other option, prior to the WinNAdvance
format, was the abusive double elimination format. Today, it is blindly
accepted as if there were no other way toward resolution ... "That's the
way it's always been done". For a moment, let's consider the
shortcomings of the burdens of double elimination.
 | Double Elimination
dumps burden after burden into the losers bracket. The result, in the
finals, is a potentially exhausted team vs. a fresh one thereby ensuring the
result. A stiff price to pay for what could be a momentary lapse by a
team mate, a coach, or an officiated call (it happens). |
| Game Weighting, or game importance,
increases exponentially as you progress through the tournament. In
other words, the first-game played is not as important as the importance of
the last-game ... the championship game.
 | It is abusive to give one team two
chances at winning a tournament title. Said another way, it is
unfair to have a championship game for one team
only. With WinNAdvance, there is only one championship game.
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| It is abusive to double the number
of games to win the tournament when you lose your least weighted first-game. Imagine, a tournament director scheduling
your #1 contender
in the first round, ensuring the outcome of the tournament due to this
abusive burden. This always
happens. With WinNAdvance, there are penalties, but nothing as
abusive as double elimination. |
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| For the 17 team format
listed below, to win the tournament title one team could have a record of
5,0 (wins, loss) or 6,0 versus the potential of a 9,1 record. In other
words, lose in the first round and you have to play twice as many
games. With win and advance, every team has the same opportunities ...
the first team that wins five games wins the
tournament. |
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