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Double elimination

A second chance: you have to lose twice to leave the tournament.

Teams
2 to 256
Losses to be out
2
Length
≈ 2× single elim.
Grand final
A single match
IN SHORT

The essentials

  1. Two brackets run side by side: the upper bracket (undefeated) and the lower bracket (one loss so far).
  2. Losing in the upper bracket drops you to the lower bracket; losing in the lower bracket eliminates you.
  3. The two survivors meet in the grand final.
  • Upper bracket
  • Lower bracket
UPPER BRACKET · UNDEFEATEDRound 1Round 2Upper finalLOWER BRACKET · ONE LOSSLower round 1Lower round 2Lower finalloserloserloserGrand finala single matchTwo losses = out of the tournament. No bracket reset in the grand final.
Upper bracket in blue, lower bracket in purple: each loss up top drops a team one level.
IN DETAIL

Mode rules

Upper and lower bracket

Every team starts in the upper bracket. The first loss doesn't eliminate: it drops the team into the lower bracket, where the tournament goes on against the other teams that already fell.

  • Upper bracket: one loss = drop to the lower bracket.
  • Lower bracket: one loss = eliminated for good.
  • The lower bracket alternates drop-in rounds (taking in the teams that just fell) and elimination rounds.

Grand final

The upper bracket winner faces the lower bracket survivor. The grand final is played as a single match: there's no bracket reset if the finalist from the lower bracket wins — that team is then champion.

Team count that isn't a power of 2

As in single elimination, the bracket is sized to the smallest power of 2 that fits all registered teams and the empty spots become walkovers in the first round of the upper bracket.

Final standings

The champion and the runner-up come out of the grand final; the others are ranked by the lower bracket round where they were eliminated — the longer a team lasts, the better it ranks.

ALL MODES

Common rules

The same in every mode: match launch and match format, score reporting, forfeits. Open a rule to read it.

Match launch

A playable match doesn't start right away: at its start time (or as soon as it becomes playable if it has no schedule), it enters launch. A window then opens for the players of both teams, showing the host team and the useful contacts.

  • Each team confirms it's ready — captain, manager or owner; in a solo tournament, the player themselves. The assigned caster confirms too.
  • The match is launched once everyone is ready, when a referee forces it, or automatically after 15 minutes.
  • No score can be reported before the launch.
Match format

The match format (Bo — maximum number of maps — or FT — number of maps to win) is set when the tournament is created and applies to the whole tournament. Without a setting, any score can be entered (free score entry).

  • A score that exceeds the format, or that names no winner when the format requires one, is rejected on entry.
  • Draws only exist if the tournament allows them; they never apply to an elimination bracket.
Score reporting

It works the same way in every mode: each team reports its match score from the tournament page, through its captain, one of its managers or its owner (the player themselves in a solo tournament).

  • Two matching reports validate the match immediately.
  • A single report opens a 10-minute confirmation window, which only starts once a plausible series duration has passed since the launch (15 minutes per map the format allows): if the opponent doesn't dispute it, the score stands.
  • Two conflicting reports put the match in dispute: a referee decides and records the official score.
  • A referee or an admin can correct a score as long as the next round has no score entered; after that, the score is locked, for them too.
Forfeit

A referee can declare a team's forfeit on a match: the match is settled in favor of the opponent. For the forfeiting team, it's a loss like any other: in single elimination it's out, in double elimination it drops to the lower bracket, in BlueGenji's Survival it loses the format's full score and stays in the running with the pool it has left.

  • In Survival (cuts), Swiss and BlueGenji's Survival, a team can also withdraw from the rest of the tournament while it's in progress (or the referee can withdraw it): it's no longer paired.
  • Its final standing takes into account when it left.
Double forfeit

When neither team shows up, the referee declares a double forfeit: the match is closed with no winner and no score, and both teams lose it.

  • In elimination, both teams are out and nobody advances: the next match becomes a walkover for the other qualified team.
  • In Swiss and Survival (cuts), each takes a loss; in the qualifier of BlueGenji's Survival, each loses the format's full score.
  • In a final, a double forfeit crowns no champion: both finalists are ranked tied 2nd.
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Other modes

Single eliminationBlueGenji's SurvivalSurvival (cuts)SwissMulti-stage tournament
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