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| | Jeff Sonas on the Double Elimination Format (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Notice that there are twice as many players in the elimination bracket as in the winners' bracket, and that the numbers are exact "powers of two". |
 | | Meanwhile, during those four days, down in the "elimination bracket", one set of two-game matches will eliminate 50% of the players in the bracket, and then another set of two-game matches will eliminate a further 50% of the survivors. |
 | | Because this rounds will only include one set of elimination matches, rather than two, this leads to an elimination bracket with one extra player at the end of Round 7, so there would be two qualifiers from the elimination bracket, in addition to the first and second place finishers. |
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