2. Formats
2.1 Single Elimination
In a single elimination tournament, players are competing within only one bracket (see 1.2). In every round, half of the players are eliminated due to losing their matches and once eliminated, they do not longer participate in the tournament.
2.2 Double Elimination
A double elimination tournament uses two brackets (1.2) instead of only one like the single elimination (2.1). The second bracket is also known as the loser's bracket. This means that a player who loses their first game will be added to the loser's bracket in the corresponding round. The winner of the loser's bracket will be the second finalist.
2.3 Swiss
Players play against each other over a predetermined amount of rounds and the player with the most wins or highest score after the last round wins the tournament. The first round's opponents are randomly assigned whereas opponents of later rounds are matched according to their previous results, e.g. the leading player competes against the best other player he has not played against yet. This ensures that players play against an opponent with equal skill without anybody playing against the same opponent twice.
2.4 Round Robin or All-play-all
Everybody plays against each other player. This can also be played as double round-robins where everybody plays twice against each other. Usually, this system is used for leagues (1.8) or within groups (1.6) as this format as only tournament format would require a lot of time for high player numbers. In theory, this system provides the most accurate or fair results.
2.5 King of the Hill
The winner of the previous torunament competes against a challenger who will become the new king of the hill if victorious. Otherwise, the old king of the hill has to be challenged again and remains on their throne until beaten.
2.6 Conquest
The conquest mode is similar to a regular Bo5 (1.1) with the only difference that the winner must change their deck whereas the loser is free to keep or change theirs. Once a player has won a game with a certain deck, he/she can't use it again.
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