EPTOn August 13 2022 05:02 dangthatsright wrote:
Winning the initial match and losing the rematch is a matter inherent to dual tournament and double elimination rather than whether the matches happen to be single games or boX (for X > 1). If anything, you can get more lopsided scenarios like a player winning the first match 3-0 but losing the decider 2-3, thus dropping out with a 5-3 map advantage over the person advancing.
There are other good reasons to prefer bo3 or longer, but this particular objection isn't really relevant to that.
Winning the initial match and losing the rematch is a matter inherent to dual tournament and double elimination rather than whether the matches happen to be single games or boX (for X > 1). If anything, you can get more lopsided scenarios like a player winning the first match 3-0 but losing the decider 2-3, thus dropping out with a 5-3 map advantage over the person advancing.
There are other good reasons to prefer bo3 or longer, but this particular objection isn't really relevant to that.
Great point. In fact, BO1 is the only way to guarantee that a player advancing from the lower bracket didn't actually lose more games to the player he defeated in the final decider game (since the overall heads-up can't go lower than 1-1)...
