Double elimination competitions are in Beta. Please flag any issues you find to hello@rackemapp.com
The fundamental principles of the Double Elimination system is that when you lose a match, you go into a second pool of entries “losers side”.
A Double Elimination competition operates under a template structure in RackEmApp. When you choose the round type it will suggest a template which ensures players don’t play each other twice until after it switches to single elimination.
Setting up a Double Elimination requires you to have reached the Round stage of the Competition setup, and this must be the first round in the competition. Although this is your “First” roumd, the system will create all subsequent rounds as part of this process, automatically.
When you choose the Round Type: Double Elimination, you get a list of templates to choose from. This is a pre-filtered list based upon the number of entries in your competition, so it will only display templates valid to your field
Where it says “To last…” that means once there are x competititors remaining it switches to Single Elimination/Straight Knockout format
We currently support field sizes of
- 256 (to last 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2)
- 128 (to last 64, 32, 16, 2)
- 64 (To last 32, 16, 8, 2)
- 32 (To last 16, 8, 4, 2)
- 16 (To last 8, 4, 2)
Additionally, we support the following field sizes. For these the top (n) seeds (or n players drawn randomly) start in Winners Round 1, allowing your top seeds a free pass to the next round.
- 192 (to last 2) [64seeds progressed]
- 96 (to last 64, 32, 16) [32 seeds progressed]
- 48 (to last 32, 16, 8) [16 seeds progressed]
- 24 (to last 16, 8, 4, 2) [8 seeds progressed]
Each round is fully independent, so you can set different values for the Winners and losers Race To’s, in each round, but to set the templated value for the rounds, you can define them here prior to the draw.
Draw Setup
With a double elimination, executing the draw will also pre-draw all subsequent rounds, which means you can go into each of them and configure the individual races.
Manually drawing will also display seeds so that you can have your top seeds avoid each other til latter in the tournament.