Oh, interesting. You’re right: even elimination tournaments award points. +1 for win, +0.5 for tie, +0 for loss, +1 for bye.
- Trophies for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd are effectively awarded by sorting players by “eliminated,-points,-SOS,-SODOS”.
- The winning finalist is the only one not eliminated, so comes first. Then it’s by points (etc.) in descending order.
- Without draws, the losing finalist would be guaranteed mathematically to have more points than any other eliminated player, since they’ve participated in more rounds and lost the same number of games (or fewer).
- With draws, the same result is likely, but not guaranteed. I filed Elimination tournaments with ties might award "silver" to a non-finalist · Issue #2521 · online-go/online-go.com · GitHub.