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Format of LA Final?
Posted By: Sam Pottle In Response To: Format of LA Final? (Rich Munitz)
Date: Tuesday, 16 June 2009, at 2:08 p.m.
You forgot to feed in the losing main flight finalist. Doing so would add yet another round, and your first round loser wound enter the finals at 10-1.
This style of second chance (or consolation) flight design is easy to make for any size of tournament (because the number of players left is always a power of 2), but it's not common, at least in the US, because it makes for a lot of rounds, and a longer tournament schedule. It's also "super-progressive", in the sense that a player gets spotted two rounds in the 2nd chance for each main flight victory (except the first). I don't have a copy of Butch's 64 player DE grid in front of me, but it probably looks something like this:
64 players - player loses (0-1)
32 rd-of-64 losers - play down to 16 (1-1)
16 rd-of-32 losers feed in (32 total) - play down to 16 (2-1)
8 rd-of-16 losers feed in (24 total) - play down to 12 (3-1)
4 rd-of-8 losers feed in (16 total) - play down to 8 (4-1)
Play down to 4 (5-1)
2 rd-of-4 losers feed in (6 total) - play down to 3 (6-1)
1 rd-of-2 loser feeds in (4 total) - play down to 2 (7-1)
Play down to 1 (8-1) - Finalist
So the second chance is fully two rounds shorter. That's also two fewer waves of losing players feeding into the consolation flight. If you make both the second chance and consolation flights super-progressive, the consolation will have approximately a bazillion rounds.
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