Question on seeding

[Socra]

Hi! I wanted to know if participants in tournaments are seeded?

 

[Shadow the Past]

Yes, any well-run tournament will have all players seeded. It's the de-facto standard of making a bracket that makes sure players who would normally play in grand finals don't play in round 1. Would you like an explanation on how tournaments are normally seeded?

 

[Socra]

Yeah! Come on explain!

 

[Shadow the Past]

Haha, alright. Well the most common way a tournament will run seeding is by splitting up all the entrants into a number of Pools. Each pool will most commonly have a round Robin format, where every player plays every other player. The players who have the most wins will be Seeded higher than those who have less wins. A seed is basically a number tied to you saying "I'm this good." A 1st seed would be one of the top players at the tournament. Then, when the brackets are made, the seeds are "evened out" in a sense, where first round a 1st seed will play something like a 4th seed from a different pool, and a 2nd seed would play a 3rd seed. (There can be more than 4 seeds). Basically, the whole seeding process is to make it easier on the TO's to make a bracket. An experienced TO can make a bracket without pools if they know most/all of the players, but most people prefer to run pools as the seeding is more precise and people get to play more.

 

[Socra]

So seeding in bracket is not right, huh?

 

[Shadow the Past]

Not entirely sure what you mean by that.