Double elimination tournaments - seeing few

Brian Shanberg100+ posts

We've set up our tournament schedule through June and I noticed there are no double elimination tournaments.

They are all basically pool play Fri and Sat and single elimination on Sunday.

Is this pretty typical? Last year, we had a couple double elimination tournaments where we were able to battle back from the loser bracket and play in champion round. But, single elimination seems like a good team could get eliminated early if they have bad luck in the draw.

BTW, this is youth 11-12 travel baseball.

3/6/081:00 PM

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Doughnutman1,000+ posts

This is almost all of what we see in Arizona. 2-3 pool play. They sort out the top teams and they battle it out. One and done. They usually have 2 or 3 diferent tiers after the pool play. So that three teams have a chance to win a "championship". It really stinks if you have a bad game. The goal is to play well enough to make the top tier but save your good pitching for the tournament rounds. Sometimes it doesn't work out.

3/6/081:23 PM

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Strike 3100+ posts

I've only been seeing double eliminations in World Series/National Championship type play. It all boils down to profit for the tournament director. Another game will cost him field time and $60 or more for umps.

There used to be a USSSA guy in St. Louis that used to give you more games like that but now he's hiding from people he owes money to, so I hear.

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