Swiss-Format Tournaments

[PlanFive]

Question: Are Swiss tournaments a valid way to run Smash tournaments?

Having come from a competitive background in card games such as Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic:the Gathering, I am more used to tournaments run with Swiss-rounds into a top cut single elimination bracket. I have recently started following the competitive scene for Smash and I realize that double-elimination formats are much more common, with round-robin pools used at larger tournaments. As the guy in my playgroup that is the unofficial TO for any tournament, it is my job to understand why tournaments of certain games are run at a certain way, and from looking at the sticky's it is weird to me how brackets and round robin are the only formats considered for running a tournament.

 

[MahopacSmash]

From personal experience, Swiss tournaments are much more complex and tend to take longer when there are more entrants.

I personally stick with double elim and sometimes a pools systems with tourneys larger than 32+

 

[MonkeyArms]

I was just in a swiss tourney, they got rid of the last round and the way they broke the ties was not fair.
If people going to get out of a tourney because someone got rid of a round at the last second, I don't think that type of tourney should be allowed