Double Elimination

Winter WonderLAN 2024 · Best-of-7 · 4 teams · double elimination

Raced to four, seeded by the round robin, with the map and gametype of all seven games of every round fixed on a printed card in advance. Lando's team went through it without losing a series -- 4-0 over CaptKbone's team, 4-1 over oNeEye Xx's team in the winners final, and 4-1 over them again in the championship final -- so the card's fifth round, the tiebreaker held in reserve for a losers-bracket team winning the final, was never played. The best series of the night was the losers final, which oNeEye Xx's team took 4-3 off McPizzaParty's team through all seven of its slots. Four games here were started and played again, and all four starts are recorded as the starts they were, none of them counting toward anybody's stats. Three were abandoned within a minute. The fourth ran four minutes: the losers semifinal's opening King of the Hill was loaded with the tiebreak settings by mistake, a score-to-win of 2 where it is played to 4, so it ended 2-0 having never been the game it was meant to be. The slot was started again from nothing once that was noticed, and nothing carried over from it -- the series is the 4-2 its games say. Game 2 of the championship final was Slayer on Aquarius where the card said Slayer on Recharge -- Aquarius being that round's seventh slot. The same rule left it standing rather than replaying it, because both slots were Slayer and the order was all that went wrong; had the series reached a seventh game it would have been played on Recharge.