Yebellz Sucks at Tournaments (and POLL!)

[yebellz]

@Lys

Do you even play tournaments?

Yes, I have participated in several tournaments. Not too many of them, but I have not done well enough to place.

That was the whole point that I was trying to imply in my previous post: Go Memes! 🧐 - #1263

@Gia

Pedantic yebellz
Tournament rules

Not a good combo.

Double elimination, eliminated on first loss

This tournament: Yeah, that looks like a bug or design mistake. Double elimination should mean that you should get a second shot at playing the final game since you hadn’t lost yet in the tournament. The final in a double elimination tournament should always be: the undefeated player only needs to win once to win the tournament while the other player needs to win twice.

How do Tournaments Work?

I’ve never participated in a tournament on this site before, so I’m not familiar with how these work. I was looking at the tournament info page, but some things left me confused. Can someone help explain how the various tournament structures work? Are there also non-simultaneous round robin tournaments that just last P-1 rounds (where P is the number of players)? What does “qualified places” for Swiss tournaments mean? What are the player “pairing methods” (the link on page seems to be broke…