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CCP Veritas
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Posted - 2012.11.25 10:54:00 -
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Sure thing.
The winners of the Winners bracket play the winners of the Losers bracket. At this phase, we're still dealing with two double-elimination tournaments, so if the Losers dudes win the first match, they need to play again as that means the Winners guys have only lost once. However, if the Winners dudes win the first match then it's done, as the Losers guys will have lost twice.
That's how the two brackets resolve.
On the final day, the winners of both brackets play each other in a best of 5 to determine the tournament 1st and 2nd place. The losers of the last match of each bracket will play each other in a best of 3 to determine the tournament 3rd and 4th place finishers. CCP Veritas - Senior Programmer - EVE Software |
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CCP Veritas
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.25 14:20:00 -
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X ATM092 wrote:Lots of words Hi, I set up the format and wrote the program which performed the seeding. I suppose you hate me and my computer's Python installation now.
The reason it's set up like this is because we wanted a best-of-five for the top, which is an idea fundamentally incompatible with double-elimination. Instead of tossing the whole idea out and going with a weaker system leading up to the final, we hybridized it as best we can - having two double-elim tournaments leading into a separate finals. This does have the problem of having a possible misordering between #2 and #3 (and even 4th), but that's just something we're going to have to live with this time. This would be less of a problem if we had some metric to base seeding on instead of straight randomness.
In case you think we're way off in left field with this format, it's also similarly used in the College World Series. CCP Veritas - Senior Programmer - EVE Software |
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CCP Veritas
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.25 14:32:00 -
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I'll talk to the dudes who are on camera about it, yup.
And more people should go to the CWS. Omaha is an underrated town. CCP Veritas - Senior Programmer - EVE Software |
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CCP Veritas
C C P C C P Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.25 17:59:00 -
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Aurelia Septima wrote:but you could have noticed that you put all top runners from the latest 2 alliance tournaments in one side and run your program once more? I could have done that, but then we couldn't say with a straight face that seeding was random. It'd be random-except-if-we-have-some-problem-with-how-it-came-out.
You just roll the dice and live with what comes out, that's how it has to be if you're doin' randoms. CCP Veritas - Senior Programmer - EVE Software |
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