Is it like EVO events where Loser Bracket gets another chance to win by defeating the Winners in the Winners Bracket?
In EVO, the Loser Bracket player needs to defeat the Winner to reset the bracket and win again to true win the event. If the Winner defeats the loser just once. They win regardless and remain undefeated.
I don’t see OWL resetting the bracket as that would make the matches even longer. So Will it be Winner Bracket Team vs Loser Bracket Team best to 4? Whoever wins this is the true Winners of Stage 4?
No, there’s no bracket reset in the grand finals. That would take, like 6 hours if it happened. The double-elim playoff bracket is just to determine who the best 2 teams are for that final match.
I’m confused. So Loser Bracket doesn’t get another chance to win stage 4?
This is not a Stage playoff. This is the Season playoffs. This is for everything. Winner of Losers will fight winner of winners in the grand finals.
There were no stage 4 playoffs this year. And since there are no stages in the new format next year, there will be no more mid-season playoffs.
Isn’t that unfair for the team from the winner’s bracket? I mean, the loser’s bracket should have some kind of disadvantage in the finals.
No. The team that was sent to losers had to fight more matches to make it, so the Winners’ side winner had to work less. Again, the playoffs just determine which teams earn the right to go to the finals in Philadelphia.
So it is like EVO now. That what I was asking lol.
Whoever got sent to loser bracket still has a chance to win the grand finals.
However, in EVO. The Loser player needs to defeat the winner twice and the winner only needs to defeat the loser once.
In OWL, it seems like whoever gets to 4 will still be the winner. I think it is only fair if the Loser team needs to get to 5 wins while the winner team needs to get the 4.
Yes, fighting game tournaments have bracket resets. Those matches are much faster, so they can do that. They usually do the whole tournament in 1 day. (or 2-3 for tourney’s like EVO and CEO)
OWL’s playoffs take weeks because the games are so long.
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