CSI Group Play - Are Teams with Byes at a Disadvantage?
It's never a great feeling to travel to an event, lose the first two matches, and be eliminated quickly. The CSI Group Play format was developed to eliminate that problem and provide all teams more play. Stage 1 is a group stage and Stage 2 is a single elimination final bracket. In Stage 1, teams from the entire field are randomly drawn into 5 separate matches and the teams that perform the best advance to Stage 2. The Stage 1 ranking criteria may be slightly different depending on whether the p [...]
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It's never a great feeling to travel to an event, lose the first two matches, and be eliminated quickly. The CSI Group Play format was developed to eliminate that problem and provide all teams more play. Stage 1 is a group stage and Stage 2 is a single elimination final bracket. In Stage 1, teams from the entire field are randomly drawn into 5 separate matches and the teams that perform the best advance to Stage 2. The Stage 1 ranking criteria may be slightly different depending on whether the p [...]