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.

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