3 Team Double Elimination Bracket

3 teams leave 1 empty slot in the first round. Seed 1 gets the bye and starts in round 2.

First-round games: 2 v 3.

The winners bracket has 2 rounds and the losers bracket 1. Play the games in number order and no team is ever waiting on a result that has not happened yet.

The winners-bracket champion has not lost; the losers-bracket champion has lost once. If the unbeaten team wins the grand final, the tournament ends after 4 games. If it loses, both have one loss and game 5 decides it. To finish after one grand final whatever happens, switch the second final off.

At 30 minutes a game, 4 games take about 2 hours on one court. The two brackets can be played side by side, so a second court cuts that roughly in half.

Short on time? The 3-team single elimination bracket takes 2 games.

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