A.

Exploring the Lesson - Answer the following question:

1. What is single elimination?

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where
the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play
another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion.
In a single-elimination tournament, only the top-ranked competitors in a fixture progress; in 2-
competitor games, only the winner progresses. All other competitors are eliminated. This ensures a
winner is decided with the minimum number of fixtures. However, most competitors will be eliminated
after relatively few matches; a single bad or unlucky performance can nullify many preceding
excellent ones.

2. What is double elimination?

A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in which a participant
ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two games or matches.
It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only one defeat results in elimination.
Purpose: All contestants remain in championship contention until they lose two games. Advantages:
•A player or team must be beaten twice to be eliminated •It selects a more adequate winner •It
maintains player motivation right up until the end. Disadvantages •It takes longer to run •It
emphasizes elimination. A double-elimination tournament may be used in 2-competitor games to
allow each competitor a single loss without being eliminated from the tournament. All losers from the
main bracket enter a losers' bracket, the winner of which plays off against the main bracket's winner.

3. What is the difference between single and double elimination?

Single Elimination is the easiest and fastest way to declare a winner while Double Elimination stands
in contrast to single elimination. Single Elimination determines the winner by eliminating the loser in
every match until one team is left. Best Use when: • the number of the entries in a tournament is large
• the time is short • the playing venue is limited. In single elimination tournaments, once you lose
you're out. There are no second chances. This is the most popular bracket format. Double Elimination
is broken into two sets of brackets, generally called the winner's bracket and the loser's bracket. Each
team will begin in the winner's bracket, but once they lose, they'll be moved to the loser's bracket,
where they still have an opportunity to make it to the championship. Advantages of Double
Elimination: • It selects a more competent winner • Maintains player motivation up until the end of the
game • A player or team must be beaten twice to be eliminated. The Disadvantages of Double
Elimination: • Emphasizes elimination • Takes longer to run • At least twice the number of matches
have to be conducted. Many high level competitions as well as the fighting game community run their
tournaments in the double elimination format. If you lose a match, you're sent down to the loser's
bracket and continue your way to the finals there. If you lose again, you're eliminated. This means
that even if you lose once, you can win the entire thing. At the end of the tournament, because there
will be one player in the grand finals who hasn't lost yet, there is a potential for two rounds with the
same opponents in a row. The winner of the tournament is the last one remaining without two losses
on their record. A double-elimination tournament is a type of elimination tournament competition in
which a participant ceases to be eligible to win the tournament's championship upon having lost two
games or matches. It stands in contrast to a single-elimination tournament, in which only one defeat
results in elimination.

B. Assessing Learning

● You are few steps to finish your activities. Let us now measure how well you understood the
lesson. Answer the activities that follow. Good luck!

Activity 1: Picture Analysis

Analyze what the picture depicts. Write a sentence about the two types of bracket. Write your answer
in no less than two (2) sentences.
The picture depicts the double elimination. The bracket is split into two trees. The main tree that is
continuous for winning players/teams, and the loser tree that catches the losers from the main tree
and puts them into another battle again for another chance of championship. The two sections above
are broken up between "Blind Draw" and "Seeded". If we are not familiar with running double
elimination tournaments, the above illustration should help guide us through setting up and running
our tournament. The bracket above is a 16 Team "Seeded" double elimination bracket. The same
idea is used for all brackets, not matter what the number of participants are. A: The letter "A" points to
the "Seeds" of the tournament, if we have pre-ranked your participants based on strength or a season
record we would put each team's name on the corresponding line. If we are printing a blind draw
bracket these numbers will not appear on the bracket, but the rest of the bracket will be exactly the
same. B: The letter "B" points to the order in which the games are to be played. Simply start by
playing the game labeled (1) and continue until all games are completed.

The picture depicts a single elimination. A simple bracket for players/teams where one lost already
means their defeat and the winner must stay strong and always in each battle. One method of
arranging a double-elimination tournament is to break the competitors into two sets of brackets, the
Winners Bracket and Losers Bracket. The Single Elimination brackets above are free to print. They
have been divided into two different sections, one for "Seeded" and one for "Blind Draw''. Single
elimination brackets are draw formats where the winner of each match advances to the next round,
and the loser is eliminated from winning the championship or first place in the division. The round in a
single elimination bracket refers to how far the competitor has advanced in the draw. People refer to
each round by its power of two. In larger draws for example, the round with 64 players remaining is
called the round of 64, or 64’s. The next round with 32 participants remaining in the bracket is called
the round of 32, or 32’s. The round in which 16 remain is the round of 16, or sweet 16. When only 8
teams remain, it is most commonly known as the Quarter finals, or the quarters. Winners from that
round move to the semis, where only 4 competitors remain. The two winners face off in the final
round sometimes called the finals or championship match. Single elimination brackets often have a
3rd place playoff, where the 2 semi final losers compete for 3rd place. Tournaments that are limited in
time may choose not to play the 3rd place match and award 3rd to both losers of the semi-finals. In a
single elimination bracket where the number of players isn’t a power of two, some participants receive
a bye in the first round. A Bye allows them to advance into the next round without having to play and
risk being knocked out of competition. Seeding is extremely important with single elimination brackets
and could change the outcome of the final standings. A badly seeded draw could have the top two
competitors in a division meet in the first round. The second best competitor who should have gotten
second would be out of the tournament. Byes are usually determined by a player’s seeding, with the
highest ranked players getting the bye as a reward for their previous performance. Some pro events
can have multiple rounds of byes where the lower ranked players have to win several matches before
facing a ranked opponent. A qualifier draw can also be used to accomplish the same thing. Seeding
single elimination brackets based on a ranking is often viewed as the fairest way to ensure that the
better teams play weaker teams in the early rounds, then better teams match-up in later rounds to
determine the champion. The most common way to seed has the very best playing the very worst
participant, then the second best player playing the second worst player, etc. So in a single
elimination bracket with 8 participants: seed 1 vs. seed 8, seed 2 vs. seed 7, seed 3 vs. seed 6, and
seed 4 vs. seed 5. Some tournaments choose to customize the seeding to create different matchups
in later rounds to avoid the same players competing in subsequent events in sports where rankings
change more slowly A single elimination bracket can have a consolation bracket where players drop
into after losing.

C. Reflection

Express what you have realized from this lesson by completing the prompt below.

I would say that I did well in this lesson because I did my best in listening, analyzing and
understanding the topics about single and double elimination. I also answered all the given activities. I
was able to understand and create both the single and double elimination since we don’t know which
loser goes which but by the help of the discussion and PowerPoint, I was able to make it. I learned
that a bracket or tournament bracket is a tree diagram that represents the series of games played
during a knockout tournament. Different knockout tournament formats have different brackets, the
simplest and most common is that of the single-elimination tournament. The name "bracket" is
American English, derived from the resemblance of the links in the tree diagram to the bracket
punctuation symbol or (called a "square bracket" in British English). The closest British term is draw,
although this implies an element of chance, whereas some brackets are determined entirely by
seeding. I also learned that elimination tournaments are used in intramurals than in any other type.
This is understandable because this type of tournament can determine winners that shortest time.
After a match, the winner automatically advances to the next level and the loser may either be
eliminated or dropped in the loser’s bracket. Single elimination and double elimination are the most
popular types of elimination. I gained knowledge about the difference of single and double
elimination. Single elimination-This type of elimination tournament determines the winner by
eliminating the loser in every match until there is one contestant left. Single elimination is best used in
games with body or physical contact like boxing and taekwondo. This is also called the “knock out”
system. On the other hand, Double elimination-In this type of tournament, a team should be defeated
twice before its declared out of the competition. It is the fairest type of tournament. This one of the
more complicated tournaments to show graphically, since the losers round keep adding new
contestants as entries drop out of the winners' rounds. Double elimination is more superior than
single elimination in the sense that a team losing once has one more chance to advance towards the
championship. Lastly, through this lesson, I learned and realized that the success of a tournament
depends upon how it is planned. Various types of tournaments can make a sports tournament
interesting. There are many things to take into consideration when we are selecting a type of
tournament—the activities, number of competitors and available time and space.