Iliad
Smash Lord
If you watch/pay any sports, then the best way to explain is it's a round robin, tops get seeded into brackets.okay aside from the trolling,
how do pools work, btw?
If you don't know what I'm talking about... You play everyone in the pool once in a best 2 of 3 set. Everyone's set counts are tallied and depending on how the TO wishes to push them forward, the top placing people in the pools are seeded into the bracket. Sometimes no one is eliminated for pools, (usually for smaller tournies) and the pools are strictly for determining your seeding into the bracket.
Keep in mind, top seed has it's benefits. For example, in a tournament with 8 pools of 4 people (32 entrants), everyone will go through (more than likely). When placed into the brackets, 1st seeds will fight 4th seeds first. 2nd seeds will fight 3rd seeds first. Also, you won't be playing anyone from your pool in the first round of brackets, that;s not necessarily a guarantee for all tournies, but we try to avoid that as best we can.
So long and short Jabu, you get more matches, a minimum of 3 assuming they're 4 man pools. and a minimum of 5 assuming you make it out of pools and lose your first two matches in brackets. TRY IN POOLS, DON'T SANDBAG. EVER.