Tournament Format

 

Tournament Format

VS Fighting 2012 will be running in a Double elimination format.

What is Double Elimination?

A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament’s championship upon having lost two games or matches.

A double-elimination tournament is broken into two sets of brackets, the Winners Bracket and Losers Bracket (W and L Brackets for short). 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.

Each round of the L Bracket is conducted in two stages, the first stage consisting of the winners of the previous stage (or losers of the very first round of competition) playing their matches, the second stage consisting of the winners of the first stage against the losers of that same round of the W Bracket playing their matches. This is to allow the losers of each stage of the W Bracket to “filter down” into the L Bracket.

For example, in an eight-competitor double-elimination tournament, the losers of the first round enter the first stage of the L Bracket – the L Bracket quarterfinals – and compete against each other. The losers are eliminated, while the winners proceed to the second stage of the L Bracket – the L Bracket semifinals – to face the losers of the W Bracket semifinals. The winners of the L Bracket semifinals proceed to the L Bracket finals, with the winner of that game being the Losers’ Bracket champion.

The championship finals of a double elimination tournament is usually set up to be a possible two games. The rationale is that since the tournament is indeed double elimination, it is unfair to have the Winners’ Bracket champion eliminated with its first loss. Therefore, while the Winners’ Bracket champion needs to beat the Losers’ Bracket champion only once to win the tournament, the Losers’ Bracket champion must beat the Winners’ Bracket champion twice.

 

 

Prize Structure

Think you can place in the money? That’s the spirit. VS Fighting awards cash prizes to the top three places at a rate proportional to the number of attendees.

£10 from the registration fee of each participant will go into a tournament prize pool, which will be awarded to the top finishers at a 7/2/1 split. For example, if 300 people enter a tournament, the total prize pool for that tournament will be £3000 (£300 x 10), paying out £2100 to first place (70% of £3000), £600 to second place (20% of £3000), and £300 to third place (10% of £3000).