u/schmittychris

My sons LL team is starting their postseason tournament. I never really paid attention to the bracket but today I looked at it. It's a 9 team double elim and apparently pretty standard. Every sample bracket I can find is the same. I think it's kind of dumb. Losers of the first round can lose again and still be in the tournament but if you win the first round you have to be perfect? Not only that but you can lose two times in a row and still keep playing? Doesn't seem right.

Edit - Looked more closely at a standard double elim bracket and ours is definitely messed up. See picture in comments.