7-Team Double Elimination Bracket
A 7-team double elimination bracket has 12 games (13 with the if-necessary final) across a 3-round winners bracket and a 4-round losers bracket, with a bye for seed 1.
7-Team Double Elimination Bracket
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7-team double elimination bracket questions
Which seeds get a bye with 7 teams?
Seed 1 skips winners round 1, which leaves 3 games in it. The byes carry into the other bracket too: losers round 1 has just 1 game.
How many games can one team play in a 7-team double elimination bracket?
From 2 to 7. A team that loses its first two games is out after two; the longest run is 7 games, for a team that drops early, wins its way through the losers bracket and then takes the grand final and the rematch.
When is game 13, the if-necessary final, played?
Only when the losers-bracket team wins game 12, the grand final. The winners-bracket champion then has its first loss too, so game 13 decides the 7-team title. If the winners-bracket team wins game 12, the tournament ends there.