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Darkstar_X
Profile Joined May 2010
United States197 Posts
November 07 2010 21:46 GMT
#61
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.
Nouar
Profile Joined May 2009
France3270 Posts
November 07 2010 21:47 GMT
#62
On November 08 2010 06:38 SentrySteve wrote:
It's fine.

Another point many of you may be missing is that it helps to progress the losers bracket at a reasonable speed. These MLG tourneys run on a tight clock and the losers bracket plays so many more games than the winners. For the sake of the spectators and MLG's personal schedule (like breakdown time, facility renting time limits, etc) the extended series rule may make the tourney easier to manage.


How is that the case ?
The Tyler/PU series had to run FOUR more games (from 2-0 to 4-2) and it could have been FIVE.
Is it faster than a bo3 ?

Think before you post garbage.
NoiR
Pyrthas
Profile Joined March 2007
United States3196 Posts
November 07 2010 21:47 GMT
#63
On November 08 2010 06:46 Darkstar_X wrote:
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.

Why do you think that any of this is news to anybody in this thread, or needed to be said, or is contributing in any way to this discussion?
Redmark
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada2129 Posts
November 07 2010 21:47 GMT
#64
that's not the issue, the issue is when before the finals both the players are in losers
one starts up games even though they both lost one series
dtz
Profile Joined September 2010
5834 Posts
November 07 2010 21:47 GMT
#65
I dislike it because it adds an element of luck.

If Jinro had lost to PainUser in the WB semifinal, he will meet Tyler in Lower Bracket and the series starts 0-0

But what happened was PainUser lost to Jinro and then he meet Tyler who he has defeated before and leads 2-0 in a bo7.

How is this fair that PainUser has the advantage in case he lose when he and Jinro was in the exact same situation. I mean they would have dropped from the same round in WB but Jinro would start from 0-0 because he is unlucky as he does not meet someone who he has defeated before while PainUser is lucky in that sense.
ohreallynow
Profile Joined November 2010
31 Posts
November 07 2010 21:47 GMT
#66
On November 08 2010 06:46 Darkstar_X wrote:
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.



It also feels pretty awful when you clearly win the first game (which is a huge mental, physical and tactical(for the next few games) advantage just to have the admins rape it from you.
Nouar
Profile Joined May 2009
France3270 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 21:50:07
November 07 2010 21:47 GMT
#67
On November 08 2010 06:46 Darkstar_X wrote:
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.


You may be 3-2 against that guy, but you lost against someone else. HE DIDN'T.
If you face him again you're either in the GF or in the LB.
The GF is another problem.
NoiR
BlueBird.
Profile Joined August 2008
United States3889 Posts
November 07 2010 21:48 GMT
#68
On November 08 2010 06:47 Pyrthas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 08 2010 06:46 Darkstar_X wrote:
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.

Why do you think that any of this is news to anybody in this thread, or needed to be said, or is contributing in any way to this discussion?


cause some people don't get it..

I think it's a fair rule, I understand the rule, I don't think the rule is needed though
Currently Playing: Android Netrunner, Gwent, Gloomhaven, Board Games
Serpico
Profile Joined May 2010
4285 Posts
November 07 2010 21:49 GMT
#69
On November 08 2010 06:47 Pyrthas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 08 2010 06:46 Darkstar_X wrote:
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.

Why do you think that any of this is news to anybody in this thread, or needed to be said, or is contributing in any way to this discussion?

Why are you so angry because of that?
Klive5ive
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom6056 Posts
November 07 2010 21:49 GMT
#70
On November 08 2010 06:44 .ImpacT. wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 08 2010 06:41 Klive5ive wrote:
It's silly.
If you meet the same player again it means you haven't lost a single game since losing to him, whilst he has just lost to someone else.
You've both lost 1 series so I think it's best to just start from scratch again.

In the Grand Final it's "fair" that the winner bracket winner should get an advantage but I don't like that either.
It's not like losing in the WB final is good... because you risk getting eliminated.

Ultimately you can say the aim of the double elimination bracket is to make sure the best 2 players make it to the final, and that the best 2 players can't knock each other out early.
Once you've achieved that goal just let them play the final from scratch.

And as for restarting a game if it's on the wrong map.... don't ever do that.
Give the players copy of the rules so if they play on the wrong map it's partially their fault too, just get on with it.


Oh god...lol...

They really should've just asked the players if it was OK to continue on the current map :/

That has nothing to do with anything :/
Don't hate the player - Hate the game
Blademage
Profile Joined November 2010
United States128 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 21:51:41
November 07 2010 21:49 GMT
#71
tbh i would rather watch a fresh/new/clean bo5/7 between the players at the later rounds. This system is very one-sided to watch, even tho it is a possibility for the player with the games down can win it is very unlikely (reasons he lost before usually pop up once again for his own loss again, hence onesided).
Basics > Legendaries
Zarahtra
Profile Joined May 2010
Iceland4053 Posts
November 07 2010 21:50 GMT
#72
In losers bracket, both players have lost 1 series. I personally don't think it should matter at all if player A lost against B or he lost against player C, since player B has lost against someone too.
People reason that it's fair, since player A can loose 0:2 and then win 2:1 so player B has won 3 games but player A has only won 2. I just don't see how that matters at all, that was a different series, which shouldn't connect just like the series player B lost doesn't connect to current series. This is for LB vs LB.

For WB vs LB, I understand the rules, it makes sense, but it makes the grand finals dead boring, one player entering as such an underdog.
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 21:55:52
November 07 2010 21:50 GMT
#73
On November 08 2010 06:40 Nouar wrote:
Here's another one :

2bo3 : TT1 has to win 4 games to win the tournament (can be 4-2 ie 2-1/2-1)
extended : TT1 has to win 3 games to win the tournament if he lost 2-1 in WB (can be 3-1)


So in THIS instance, it actually helps the guy coming from the LB.
How fair is that for the guy winning all from WB ?

Yeah, if it's just one bo7 the WB advantage is negated by the extended series rule. Seems to be poorly thought out.

A common alternative to the double bo3 series is a bo5 with a 1-0 advatange for the WB winner. So if they want to keep the extended series thing without having too many games, maybe they could add 1-0 for the WB winner and make it a bo9. So it'd start 3-1 or 3-0, with 2-6 more games played (same # of games as with the standard 2 bo3s)
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overt
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States9006 Posts
November 07 2010 21:51 GMT
#74
On November 08 2010 06:46 Darkstar_X wrote:
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.


It must be even more heart breaking for Tyler who won more games this MLG than PainUser due to losing to PainUser earlier and then beat PainUser in a bo3 yet still got eliminated due to the extended series rule.
Mainland
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada551 Posts
November 07 2010 21:52 GMT
#75
It's not fair at all. Obviously getting knocked out by someone in the situation where you beat them overall 3-to-2 doesn't feel good, but the player who got sent to the loser's bracket first played extra games to get to the rematch. The person who got knocked out second played fewer games to get the rematch. They both earned their spots in the loser's bracket. The extended series gives the winner of the first game a third life in a double elimination tournament.
Pyrthas
Profile Joined March 2007
United States3196 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 21:53:35
November 07 2010 21:52 GMT
#76
On November 08 2010 06:49 Serpico wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 08 2010 06:47 Pyrthas wrote:
On November 08 2010 06:46 Darkstar_X wrote:
It feels pretty awful to beat a player 2-0, then face them again and lose 1-2 to be eliminated even though you are 3-2 against them. In every double elimination tournament, the winner has to start up a series, otherwise he isn't double eliminated. The person in the lower bracket already has a lost series, the person in the winner's bracket has not.

Why do you think that any of this is news to anybody in this thread, or needed to be said, or is contributing in any way to this discussion?

Why are you so angry because of that?

I'm annoyed, though not really angry, because I think the discussion would be better served by not rehashing ideas and arguments. Everything being said here has been said before about extended series. We could make more progress on the topic as a whole if, instead of saying it all again, we started where we left off when we discussed the topic after MLG DC. It's just tiresome to read the same points all over again.

Edit: I should apologize to Darkstar, though. My reply was more aggressive than was necessary. Sorry about that. It wasn't necessary at all.
McDonalds
Profile Joined March 2010
Liechtenstein2244 Posts
November 07 2010 21:53 GMT
#77
Any solution other than the extended series is arbitrary, really. If you don't like it then you should be protesting the existence of the losers bracket in the first place.
High five :---)
Archvil3
Profile Joined September 2010
Denmark989 Posts
November 07 2010 21:55 GMT
#78
Lets apply this same rule to a groupplay into play-off system;

16 player tournament, 4 groups of 4, best 2 of each advances to RO8 knockout.

Player A and B are in group 1, both players advances to RO8 and in their match in that group player A beat player B 2-0.

Player A and B meet up in the finals once more, the series extends and player A is given a 2-0 lead, because their internal score in that tournament is 2-0.

And yes this scenario is ridiculous. Absolutely and in every way stupid which is why noone is doing that.

I dont see why that is any different in a double elimination tournament.

Why is it that previous results should matter in double elimination but not in any other type of tournament?

I vote unfair ofc.
Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Pyrthas
Profile Joined March 2007
United States3196 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-07 21:57:22
November 07 2010 21:56 GMT
#79
On November 08 2010 06:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 08 2010 06:40 Nouar wrote:
Here's another one :

2bo3 : TT1 has to win 4 games to win the tournament (can be 4-2 ie 2-1/2-1)
extended : TT1 has to win 3 games to win the tournament if he lost 2-1 in WB (can be 3-1)


So in THIS instance, it actually helps the guy coming from the LB.
How fair is that for the guy winning all from WB ?

Yeah, if it's just one bo7 the WB advantage is negated by the extended series rule. Seems to be poorly thought out.

Yeah, Nouar is right about how it works. I posted the best justification I've heard for MLG's policy on page 2, though, and I don't think it's entirely garbage.
some_pro
Profile Joined October 2010
120 Posts
November 07 2010 21:56 GMT
#80
Imagine a double elimination without extended series tournament

Winners bracket, player A wins player B 3-0

Grand final, A and B meet again, and B wins 3-2

Should B be the winner, even tho he has a 3-5 record against A ?
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