The loss side of a double-elimination bracket is the place where you either win or go home. When a tournament employs a ‘modified double-elimination bracket,’ players from the winners’ and the loss side of the bracket advance to a single-elimination phase where everybody involved will either win or go home.
It's a significant change for a player who’s yet to lose. Up to that point, it’s been win or go to the loss side for a second chance. They’re now in the same ‘win or go home’ boat as the loss-side competitors who’ve joined them in single-elimination play. It’s not as significant a change for the competitor who’s joined the new, single-elimination bracket from the loss side. It’s business as usual for them. They’ve been living with the ‘win or go home’ reality for a while.
For Eduardo Cardova this past weekend (Sat., Feb. 24), it was quite a while. He lost his opening match (to Luis Jimenez 7-5) at a $500-added, 10-ball stop on the Predator Tri-State Tour that drew 39 entrants to Shooters Family Billiards in Wayne, NJ. He moved to the loss side, where he won five straight to qualify for the single-elimination phase of the event (with four competitors from each side of the double-elimination bracket). Then, still under the ‘win or go home’ rules, he won three more to claim his first-ever (recorded) regional tour title, in his first year of reported earnings with us here at AZBilliards.
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It's a significant change for a player who’s yet to lose. Up to that point, it’s been win or go to the loss side for a second chance. They’re now in the same ‘win or go home’ boat as the loss-side competitors who’ve joined them in single-elimination play. It’s not as significant a change for the competitor who’s joined the new, single-elimination bracket from the loss side. It’s business as usual for them. They’ve been living with the ‘win or go home’ reality for a while.
For Eduardo Cardova this past weekend (Sat., Feb. 24), it was quite a while. He lost his opening match (to Luis Jimenez 7-5) at a $500-added, 10-ball stop on the Predator Tri-State Tour that drew 39 entrants to Shooters Family Billiards in Wayne, NJ. He moved to the loss side, where he won five straight to qualify for the single-elimination phase of the event (with four competitors from each side of the double-elimination bracket). Then, still under the ‘win or go home’ rules, he won three more to claim his first-ever (recorded) regional tour title, in his first year of reported earnings with us here at AZBilliards.
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