Defeated Participants May Advance

If you lose your match, you may still advance to the next round of the tournament. You are not out of the tournament until you see your name listed in the “Ranking” on the tournament’s “Review” page. The “Ranking” is not updated until all of the matches in a particular round are marked “finished,” so you may have to wait a few minutes to find out if you will advance.

Why? Get Gosu’s eSports tournaments are designed to progress smoothly. Example: if 28 Participants register for a tournament, after the first round of play we would have 14 winning participants ready to advance to the second round of the tournament. For the sake of elegance, Get Gosu’s Tournament Progression Algorithm would prefer to have 16 participants advance to the second Tournament Round. Therefore, in this example, two participants that lost in the first Tournament Round get selected to become the 15th and 16th participants that will advance to the second Tournament Round.

The losing participant(s) that are chosen to advance to the next Tournament Round are not chosen at random; the participant(s) that performed the best in their losing efforts are selected. The selection is done by comparing the match stats of each losing participant in the current Tournament Round; the participant(s) with the most Rounds Won in their losing efforts are selected to advance.

If there is a tie in the Rounds Won field, the participants(s) that are selected to advance are determined by choosing the participant(s) with the greatest aggregate score in the next-most match stat: Kills. If there is a tie in both the Rounds Won field and the Kills field, the tie is broken by comparing the next-most match stat: Deaths. If there is a tie in aggregate Deaths then aggregate Damage is compared, and so on as necessary. If Rounds Won, Kills, Deaths, Damage, Hits, Headshots, Tks, and Suicides are all tied, the participant that registered for the tournament first is chosen to advance to the next Tournament Round.

If you are on the winning side of a match you may find this rule kind of annoying as you have to play out your entire match even if you have already have a majority of Rounds Won. But, consider the following: if you are playing a practice play tournament as a pickup game (PUG) or a scrimmage (scrim) then you don’t want the match to end, you are practicing and you paid for the game server time, you should want to get all the game server time that you paid for. In a real money tournament, if you have won enough rounds to secure yourself a victory you have three basic options:

You can keep playing against a weaker opponent to pad your personal stats, and to stay warmed up for your next match.

You can stop playing and go AFK for a bit since you already know that you are going to win. If you do this, just remember to stay in the game server! If your whole team quits out of the server you will get marked as Absent and you will lose your match even if you had won enough rounds to win the match!

Here is the interesting part: you know that teams that lose still have the opportunity to advance if they score well enough compared to the other losing teams. If you go AFK then your opponent will score very well against you. If you are playing against a good team, you should not go AFK, you should instead try to dominate them for the entire match. If they get a really low score, you can prevent them from getting a second chance in the tournament. You have a direct impact over whether or not you will knock this team out of the tournament permanently, if you are playing a solid competitor you should make every effort to make sure they do not get a second chance!