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Four-team or four-player groups using double elimination are called "GSL-style groups" in reference to the Global StarCraft II League in Korea, which historically has used such a group format. The FIRST Robotics Competition began using the double-elimination bracket starting with the 2023 season. [9]
Many esports, such as Counter-Strike and StarCraft, use a double-elimination bracket in competitions to determine the top two teams in a four-team group. In this usage, the format is referred to as "GSL", after the Global StarCraft II League. Dota 2 competitions often use a GSL or round-robin group stage to seed teams into a double-elimination ...
The NFL expanded its playoff field from 12 to 14 ahead of the 2020 NFL season, making the 2021 NFL playoffs the first time only one team had not gotten a bye week.
All 2–0 deficit comebacks in a five-game series involve winning three straight elimination games, finally featuring a double-elimination game five. Longer series of this nature are almost always structured as single-elimination knockout tournaments, so one more loss means losing the series and ending playoff contention for the losing side.
Both No. 1 seeds, one in each conference, earn a bye week to begin their playoff schedule. It's a departure from the old format, where the top two seeds were awarded bye weeks.
The second split has the eight teams in each conference compete against their conference opponents in a double round-robin group stage, with all games being best-of-one. The top 6 teams per conference compete in a double-elimination best-of-five bracket, with the top two teams earning a bye to the winner's semi-finals.
[11] [16] The number of teams that qualify has varied: from the 2012 season to the 2014 season, the top five teams in each of its two conferences played in the playoffs; this was increased to six teams from 2015 to 2018 and later seven teams in the 2019 season, which also switched all rounds to single-elimination matches. Under this system, the ...
The highest-ranked team has a bye in the first round. In this case, if all teams have an even chance of winning each match, the highest-ranked team has a 37.5% chance, ranks two and three have a 25% chance and the lowest-two-ranked teams have a 6.25% chance of winning the competition.