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Originally Posted by |Erasmus|

This, basically. It's really good if you want to then say a single elimination T8 playoff, because it just gets a little bit harder if you lose first round (x-1 should still get you there eventually, but you'll have bad tiebreakers cause the guy you beat second round is 0-2 then, so you'll get less points for beating terrible players).

I think it's really bad depending on how ACL points are awarded/how the initial round is seeded. Swiss systems are usually just randomly generated from evenly matched opponents, so you may have two pros play first round, and the winner is the only one with a chance to win from this point.

That's a good point, but I think as long as the points are right, it really does a pretty similar job to a losers bracket in double elim - if you lose your first game and win your next 4, you end up doing pretty well. If you don't win the next 4, you'd be knocked out in the double elim anyway.

It just comes down to the disparity in how many points beating which opponents is worth vs how random the matchups are

Edit: the more I look at this, the more I like it! I ran a sim at work and it goes pretty well - very similar to a double elim except that it does give people those extra games.