NEW Season Starts TODAY! - EP71 - HERMITCRAFT SEASON 9

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2024

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  • @philbarbato
    @philbarbato Год назад +379

    You definitely need “20th Century” and “Megan”.

    • @JulyJaid117
      @JulyJaid117 Год назад +7

      I came here looking for this comment cuz I thought the same thing!

    • @ronanh.9261
      @ronanh.9261 Год назад +3

      yes

    • @KnugenMooMoo
      @KnugenMooMoo Год назад

      Yip Megan

    • @michaelgage652
      @michaelgage652 Год назад +15

      Fox names:
      Megan (fox)
      20th century (fox)
      Mozilla Fire (fox)
      (Fox) Mulder
      Jamie (fox)
      (Foxy) Brown
      (foxxy) cleopatra
      (Fox) racing.
      Cub was interested in the tcg bracket board for his museum.
      What if when you do the new tournament instead of total elimination you have people who have lost play each other for ranking. Sometimes a really good player gets bad draws. This would give everyone who lost more chances to place higher. I’m not sure what it’s called but they do it in the Olympics.
      “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use birch logs successfully”-sad gem noises.

    • @KnugenMooMoo
      @KnugenMooMoo Год назад +1

      @@michaelgage652 they done Jamie fox

  • @zane_sadauskis
    @zane_sadauskis Год назад +62

    I really like the name "20th century" for the fox

  • @aefinn
    @aefinn Год назад +127

    Now that Hermitcraft is in 1.20 you can edit all those signs so you don't need that much glow ink :)

    • @dranorter
      @dranorter Год назад +7

      I just knew Beef would forget about the new signs feature. I'm guessing that there will be hermits still discovering this feature for the next year or two. And writing on the backs of signs... I think just about everyone is going to forget that's an option.

  • @missgally9604
    @missgally9604 Год назад +206

    You should try placing the heads of the players, on the leader bord instead of there name for a better visual effect. Btw so excited for season 2 😍😍

    • @lenn2099
      @lenn2099 Год назад +2

      Maybe Sign and Head in Item frame behind (don't know if it works with heads like with blocks)

    • @eXernox
      @eXernox Год назад +1

      I'd say he should use the new hanging signs instead alltogether because of the bigger font size (for scores)

  • @SummerJeans
    @SummerJeans Год назад +109

    Grian finally starts participating in tcg makes me really happy tbh. He’s a plotting character for sure so it’d be super interesting to see how far he can go

    • @PTUBE101_
      @PTUBE101_ Год назад +12

      I feel like Grian will definitely find a way to get his card and trade for a Poultry Man

  • @chicagogr81
    @chicagogr81 Год назад +169

    I think an 8 person playoff sounds perfect for a 14 player league. 26 games for the regular season insures everyone gets plenty of game time and then the top qualifiers battle it out to see who is the best.

  • @JenInMinecraft
    @JenInMinecraft Год назад +65

    Every time I see underground (activated) redstone covered up, I get flashbacks to Etho on the Mindcrack server when he started placing TNT at random and one went off. :D

  • @Shesstitchin
    @Shesstitchin Год назад +105

    Geez I thought you meant hermitcraft. Jump scare lol

    • @anderslarsen1321
      @anderslarsen1321 Год назад +18

      Hermitcraft 9 will most likely not end before Tangos game is almost finnished… 😅

    • @danielbrazell
      @danielbrazell Год назад

      Fr

    • @KaeleyStormcrow
      @KaeleyStormcrow Год назад +2

      Me too tho OMG I came here so fast

    • @susantummon3463
      @susantummon3463 Год назад +5

      Havent you heard? They're on season 11 now. 9 finished last week.

    • @Pink-Ninja
      @Pink-Ninja Год назад +2

      Same, lol. I was like, "Wait! But decked out is not out yet."

  • @catpeople11
    @catpeople11 Год назад +23

    Xb's giggles are never unwelcome. The Dr Hibbert of minecraft

  • @sisigwithrice
    @sisigwithrice Год назад +94

    I love Beef's building process
    Beef: puts down 13 blocks in a line
    Beef: I think we're okay
    🤣

  • @buddytrueblood
    @buddytrueblood Год назад +60

    I quite like the top 8 making the playoffs. It will force the players to strategize and constantly change up their decks

    • @DarkAngel-ki3co
      @DarkAngel-ki3co Год назад

      I like the idea, but I was thinking to make it like a hybrid, everyone play 3 games against each hermit, first one doesn't count for playoff, the other two do but you have to play all hermits once before you start the bracket season. I am saying this because Grian is far behind everyone at this point. I'm glad to see him playing but he's very far behind the curve. It'll help him get some coins to buy packs so can at least be competitive, assuming he hasn't played much and has few card options.

    • @buddytrueblood
      @buddytrueblood Год назад

      @@DarkAngel-ki3co sounds pretty cool. Although "who is this grain character?"...

  • @mad_maddie
    @mad_maddie Год назад +35

    Name suggestion for the fox: Pooka
    Of course named after the one and only fox, @th3pooka, the amazing animator who has brought life to Hermitcraft songs toghether with Elybeatmaker and Jono, such as "Mumbo Jumbo, you are AFK" and "Order of Octa". Also frequently employed by Impulse and Skizzleman.

    • @nmgg6928
      @nmgg6928 Год назад +2

      Love this suggestion also pooka I believe does xisumas animations including his season 8 shenanigans with evil x.

    • @miniciominiciominicio
      @miniciominiciominicio Год назад +4

      You suggest @th3pooka and don't mention his absolute masterpiece Dragon Bros? Bruh

    • @ahmed4363
      @ahmed4363 Год назад +1

      ​@@miniciominiciominicioBro

  • @durzoblint5248
    @durzoblint5248 Год назад +45

    I think now that the server has been updated to 1.20 you should change the board and use hanging signs in their three different poses, instead of signs on slabs, it'd let the gradient background a bit more visible too

    • @eMe_peridot_hare
      @eMe_peridot_hare Год назад +4

      This!! Also 1.20 means signs can be edited, which will be a huge save on glow ink and time with breaking & replacing signs

  • @baristasimmer
    @baristasimmer Год назад +23

    I'm remaking my Taiga biome and I kept mistaking the sleeping foxes as pumpkins. You could name one Pumpkin.

  • @TemporallyAwry
    @TemporallyAwry Год назад +3

    8 Person Bracket seems good - and having the anti-tournement with the bottom 8 would also be fun. (Yes, I know that means someone could theoretically win both, that's a feature).

  • @weeklyhan8506
    @weeklyhan8506 Год назад +1

    @vintagebeef What about a double elimination bracket? Top 10 gets into winners bracket, and the other 4 go directly to losers bracket. There are a ton of generators online. But I think Double Elimination gives you incentive enough to place better, without the treat of immediate elimination over you.

  • @gaminlegion3482
    @gaminlegion3482 Год назад +1

    To break up the long line of signs you should switch the players name with their head. Gives a little pop and easier to see when the signs are up so high. Either that or make the sign 4 columns so its easier to go up and read.

  • @CZghost
    @CZghost Год назад +11

    Unless this video was recorded before the update to 1.20, the signs can be edited by right clicking it (of course without crouching). That means you shouldn't need to bring new glow ink every time you update the board, because you shouldn't have to destroy the signs in order to update them.

  • @DahliaInPurple
    @DahliaInPurple Год назад +10

    It’s so cool to see TCG continue through the season. I love watching the game evolve and casual matches make great binge content/streams. If things go into a third tournament/season of TCG it might be fun to have a new players league for hermits who have had less play experience and tokens to build their decks.

  • @mattahrens5338
    @mattahrens5338 Год назад +17

    I think top 8 would be good. Signs are now editable, that should make changing them easier, as long as someone doesn't decide to troll you and wax all the signs.

    • @octanoia
      @octanoia Год назад

      HC9 hasn’t been updated to the latest version of minecraft with editable signs and probably won’t be for a while, as it’s quite a big thing to update a server to new version updates. This would be such a perfect use case for them though, hopefully Beef won’t get too many flashbacks when he does come to edit signs in 1.20

    • @xXTasty_SoupXx
      @xXTasty_SoupXx Год назад

      I’m pretty sure they just updated the other day

    • @brennan9044
      @brennan9044 Год назад

      @@xXTasty_SoupXxyeah they updated yesterday

  • @Gamerswell
    @Gamerswell Год назад +2

    16:00 You can shift right click place signs to place them without text. And you can edit the signs now :)

    • @WonkyWater-YT
      @WonkyWater-YT Год назад

      Hermitcraft only just updated to 1.20, probably by when this was made it wasn't 1.20 yet.

    • @Gamerswell
      @Gamerswell Год назад

      @@WonkyWater-YT I mean for the next episode, when he needs to edit them.

    • @WonkyWater-YT
      @WonkyWater-YT Год назад

      @@Gamerswell Oh ok then yeah! I just got a bit confused with the wording

  • @Facelessninja49
    @Facelessninja49 Год назад +3

    I love how you summoned bdubs with mentioning gradient. His ears must of been ringing

  • @aarongrissom6635
    @aarongrissom6635 Год назад +1

    What you could do for placement is the top 7 (half of the hermits) automatically make it to the quarter-finals the remaining 7 play a qualifiers tournament. Only the top 1 of the qualifiers make it to the quarter-finals. This leaves 8 players for QF, 4 for SF, and 2 for the Finals.

  • @ovadiadan
    @ovadiadan Год назад

    20:43 Hanging signs would've been great for the standings board. Also in 1.20 you can edit signs by right clicking! 1.20 will be your friend lol

  • @dsklizzle
    @dsklizzle Год назад +2

    Fanstastic Mr. would be a great name

  • @superservo
    @superservo Год назад +1

    Congrats on season 2!
    My son names his fox toys:
    foxy sr. and foxy jr. 😂

  • @Evie0h
    @Evie0h Год назад

    I’ve always loved birch! Especially after the stripped logs too. Helps that’s I’ve always loved the birch forest, not cause I’m a builder no, I understand builders not enjoying the biome color and the leaves and logs everywhere, but I love it as a change from the other older biomes while just playing the game, and it’s easy to travel there

  • @MCPhssthpok
    @MCPhssthpok Год назад +4

    Seeing as the server has been updated to 1.20, you'll be able to edit the signs just by right clicking them. So you hopefully won't need to redo the glow ink and dyes too much.

  • @Ironsight_Army
    @Ironsight_Army Год назад +1

    I think replacing the name signs with the player head would make it easier to see the ranking at a glance

  • @MiniCraftWolskys
    @MiniCraftWolskys Год назад

    I think having a winner / loser bracket could be fun - this would mean that not only you'll play the regular season for qualification, but also that good seeding will give you a second shot while a bad seeding will place you directly in loser bracket.
    Also it can help with the sometimes aspect of "random" in card games, if you lose once you can try to come back.
    Also who doesn't love a story of someone in the loser bracket coming back to win it all ?
    You can qualify top 4 in winner bracket and 5 to 8 in loser, or even 8 in winner bracket and 9 - 12 in loser, or any other combination

  • @ion0057
    @ion0057 Год назад +1

    beef talking away, meanwhile the spiders and skeletons in the redstone from the last board all trying to make themselves known

  • @lenzi1982
    @lenzi1982 Год назад +1

    i cant believe i didnt watch you regularly before tcg, im glad i do now!

  • @RottenBen
    @RottenBen Год назад +1

    For the gradient to work better, maybe put the logs at the top sideways so that the texture on the wool isn't perpendicular to the logs?
    Also, don't let Gem hear your birch log slander.

  • @ZalrokChaos1
    @ZalrokChaos1 Год назад +2

    Oh, Grian is going to finally play TCG? Awesome.

  • @seymour47
    @seymour47 Год назад

    You can always handicap the tournament game based on rank (i.e. lower ranks start with lower life on their first Hermit, higher ranks start with an extra card, etc.).

  • @w3n11
    @w3n11 Год назад +1

    I would use banners with ciphers on them since the signs at the very top will be hard to read.

  • @PsiVolt
    @PsiVolt Год назад

    the gradient came out pretty well! I'd just suggest peppering some of the other colors at the edges so it isn't solid blobs up against each other but a little bit of dithering at the edge

  • @elmopelle
    @elmopelle Год назад +1

    *Misty*.
    I love the three of you, just having fun, golden tears rolling down my face for laughing so much 😂

  • @ebonbonb652
    @ebonbonb652 Год назад

    I think for the playoffs, the top six automatically qualify and reserve two spots for a wildcard. Then the wildcards are determined by a smaller tournament where the two best qualify. This is an idea I’ve wanted to see in the NHL but I think this can work here.
    Love TCG and the amount of hype this game has! Looking forward for Season 2!

  • @lomiification
    @lomiification Год назад

    Bdubs kinda has a class on gradients in his current building with bdubs series, as so far as making shapes on a flat surface goes
    ... It also sounds like you need to look at bdubs' builds at spawn. Lots of diorite, and a tree made of birch logs

  • @ellipsis...1986
    @ellipsis...1986 Год назад +5

    At least you can update signs now that you've updated to 1.20

  • @snotrajohnson
    @snotrajohnson Год назад

    Guy; Vivica; Emilia
    Edit: I’m really enjoying the Starblight Desert CTM vids! Such a throwback, especially when I’ve rewatched many of the original Team Canada CTMs over the last couple years.

  • @JD2jr.
    @JD2jr. Год назад +6

    If you're color coding names, the top 6 should be one color, and the two at the bottom of the top 8 (at risk of dropping out of top 8) should be another color, then everyone else. And adding in player heads is also probably a better way to indicate players, although you could make a ranking "totem pole" separate that accomplishes all this and leaves the board as just a data display.

  • @manoutepish
    @manoutepish Год назад +6

    Hey Beef, An idea could be to have a qualifier round for the main tourney. The top 4 in the season don't have to have to play in the qualifier to be in the tourney. The numbers are for an example only and can be tweaked to the number of participants.

  • @mrfoodarama
    @mrfoodarama Год назад +1

    Imagine if Spiders in real life made sounds like in Minecraft.. You get in bed, close you eyes, ready to sleep and all the sudden this beastly creature is hissing and spitting from the corner of the room .. LOL Would be the most horrific thing ever hahah

  • @TomTomErik
    @TomTomErik Год назад

    you could put the warped stem wood horizontal so it fits better with the wool

  • @mapwheel00
    @mapwheel00 Год назад

    Numbered banners might be an easier way to update standings instead of using so much glow ink. Wrigley Field/Fenway style. Of course you’d probably have to make the board larger. Especially if your 1.20 update is still a ways off.

  • @Lightning_Lance
    @Lightning_Lance Год назад +5

    You could do two tournaments, one for the highest ranking players and one for the lower half of the rankings

  • @patrickollenberger1616
    @patrickollenberger1616 Год назад +1

    I think if you do an 8 player tourney at the end of season, you should have the top 8 names in lime dye and the bottom 6 in red dye, to show the seed needed to make the tourney

  • @chazbrown1139
    @chazbrown1139 Год назад +1

    You could do all 14 players make the tournament but the Top 2 get byes for the first round while the remaining 12 fight in a single elimination style tournament. Or Top 10 with a double elimination rule which to me would make the most sense

  • @HIllowder
    @HIllowder Год назад

    luckily you can edit signs in the next update, so that might help with score upkeep

  • @ttttttttttttttttttttttttttim
    @ttttttttttttttttttttttttttim Год назад +1

    You could do it like the nba does where the first 6 spots advance directly to the playoffs and the 7th to 10th place play play-in games for the 7th and 8th spot

  • @saucyslappykoalabeaR
    @saucyslappykoalabeaR Год назад

    Foxy Cleopatra - Austin Powers reference for a fox name. Huzzah!

  • @maxip7090
    @maxip7090 Год назад

    For the Playoffs you could do the Top 4 + 4 slots played out in a qualifying round between P5-P12 (so P5 vs P12, P6 vs P11, P7 vs P10, P8 vs P9)

  • @tammi.st.18
    @tammi.st.18 Год назад

    Since the 1.20 is now out, you can change the sign with a right click on a sign.
    You don't need to break them

  • @aaasports9898
    @aaasports9898 Год назад +2

    Fox-borough Stadium

  • @pasknight6160
    @pasknight6160 Год назад

    aaa so excited for s2!! so many games to look forward to!! (also totally agree re: birch wood)

  • @arrynf1246
    @arrynf1246 Год назад

    To save time you could keep the standings board in alphabetical order and have a separate sign next to the names with their updated ranking

  • @Morningblossom
    @Morningblossom Год назад +2

    I think everyone that wants to should be able to participate in the tournament.
    Like yeah, making the tournament an incentive sounds exciting, but you never know if someone will have smth happen irl so they can't properly participate in the season...
    Also I hope for your sanity that the Minecraft update and the ability to edit signs will be implemented in the server soon lol

  • @shrinetocircus3965
    @shrinetocircus3965 Год назад +1

    hey beef, love the ranking board!
    you should dye anyone who moved up in rank green and anyone who moved down red

  • @fathomsfan3336
    @fathomsfan3336 Год назад +2

    I think Agent Mulder should be up there...

  • @CZghost
    @CZghost Год назад +2

    Name one Ylvis. Trust me, it's important! :D

  • @bekkipickett
    @bekkipickett Год назад +2

    How about Fox Mulder for a one of the foxes :p

  • @RobertHMayfire
    @RobertHMayfire Год назад

    Thank you for releasing this video on Father's day!

  • @aulvinduergard9952
    @aulvinduergard9952 Год назад +2

    When it comes to who makes it into the S2 tournament, you could make it so the *Top 7* get in, with the 8th spot being a wildcard. The wildcard being randomly determined by essentially pulling a name out of a hat, with how many wins being how many entries a particular hermit gets.
    Alternately, you could have the bottom 7 vote for who should represent them in the tournament, giving them someone to root for,

  • @thegoldencow5297
    @thegoldencow5297 Год назад

    If you want a cool narative for the tournament I would recomend a king of the hill format, basically the pplayer who finishes 8th go up against the one who finished 7th and then the winner of that meets the one who finished 6th and so on with the winner of regular season as kinda like a final boss. The downsides may be that less games will be played and may flop if nobody upsets but I personally love how that format builds a narrative during the tournament aswell as rewarding regular season preformance

  • @maxsalmon4980
    @maxsalmon4980 Год назад +1

    If you're doing Michael J as a fox name, you gotta make one Samantha. And Jamie.

  • @Aidan-t8j
    @Aidan-t8j Год назад

    Trophy idea:
    While you continue to do the World Series trophy for the tournament champion maybe make a copy of the premier league cup as the regular season champion(as that’s how the EPL decides it’s season champion). The premier league cup also adds ribbons with the champions colors on the handles. Doing something similar could add uniqueness to individual trophies, which would also incentivize Cub and Cleo to collect all of the trophies for their museums instead of only one. I also imagine this would make Jevin’s trophy incredibly valuable as it would look completely different from all other regular season trophies.

  • @Fusionbluntmam
    @Fusionbluntmam Год назад +2

    I thought the title was saying that a new hermitcraft season was starting, I forgot about tcg season 2

  • @jasonthemood
    @jasonthemood Год назад

    add wild cards/play-ins, a strict 8 almost guarantees the very bottom players give up near EOS. wild card means middle seeded players are fighting to stay out of playing an extra playoff game, and bottom players are still fighting to get into wild card. it keeps everyone involved the whole way and makes end of season stories climatic.
    mid-season tournament can also be good idea. allows players to realize the importance of their current standing and get a taste of playoff stakes. it can inspire them to change things up for the last half and give you an opportunity to add new rules/cards to refresh the gameplay or balance things

  • @julijan2653
    @julijan2653 Год назад +4

    Name one of the foxes "megan" as megan fox lol

  • @seandorig1955
    @seandorig1955 Год назад +1

    Beef you know u can just put a book and lecturn so its more accessible :)

  • @AC_memes
    @AC_memes Год назад

    Finally someone defending birch thank you

  • @NiklasFreidwall
    @NiklasFreidwall Год назад +1

    Now in 1.20 you can edit signs. Just to remind you :)

  • @grovemeister04
    @grovemeister04 Год назад

    Beef as soon as Hermitcraft updates to 1.20, you can edit signs and won't have to dye them over and over!

  • @larsdevries9514
    @larsdevries9514 Год назад

    If you want playoffs with everyone you could make a winners bracket with the top 4 of where they don't have to fight more games and if they lose they get dropped into the lower bracket. (This idea comes from LEC, League of Legends in Europa format)

  • @rileykass1563
    @rileykass1563 Год назад +1

    When the server updates to 1.20, you should be able to update the signs instead of breaking them and retyping everything all the time!

  • @hummingbirddeee
    @hummingbirddeee Год назад

    Excited to see the next season of TCG!!! Curious to see how Grian does, I don't think I've seen him play yet!

  • @tomc711
    @tomc711 Год назад

    "Summer" for the fox, also player heads for the TCG scoreboard!!

  • @user-sr1vx1ch8y
    @user-sr1vx1ch8y Год назад

    Mulder. Fox Mulder. Love the x files :)

  • @michelleestrada13
    @michelleestrada13 Год назад

    So excited for more of TCG!! In the new season super fun 🤩

  • @AcedeKlown
    @AcedeKlown Год назад

    If fox names can also be with "Fox" as the "first name":
    McCloud
    Hound
    Trot
    And because you asked for the opinion of the people on the streets: Populi

  • @CheeseduckClaire
    @CheeseduckClaire Год назад

    I just remembered you can edit signs now! This standings board is gonna be so much easier to use than before 1.20!

  • @jasond7978
    @jasond7978 Год назад

    I like your first 8 idea. Make em work for it!

  • @webs4447
    @webs4447 Год назад

    I love the gradient!

  • @ibpants
    @ibpants Год назад

    Grian and Keralis have committed to S2? Surprising but good news!

  • @demolitioning
    @demolitioning Год назад +3

    I would much prefer if there was a regular season and a tournament. Plus a bonus idea, if the regular season champion and the tournament champion are two different people(so it's not the same person that won both things) there must be a match between the two to prove who is the best, let's call it The Match of Champions

  • @nifegun
    @nifegun Год назад

    "I should have spoken to bdoubleO about gradients" *bdubs logs*
    "What are the odds?"
    Honestly not that bad, you're both in North America and play hermitcraft as your main job. What's really crazy is when one of the NA players mention doc and he's online, which is A LOT, I swear doc doesn't even sleep when he's excited about a build lol. He's about 6 hours away in time difference from the NA players, yet I swear he cameos more with NA players than the other EU players lmao

  • @philbarbato
    @philbarbato Год назад +5

    How about Top 6 are automatically in the tournament and the bottom 8 have to battle for the last two places?

  • @robinagreer
    @robinagreer Год назад +1

    Bdubs has used Birch Logs and Diorite in a build together... But only bdubs could do it. Lol

  • @acezyx428
    @acezyx428 Год назад

    Make sure the fox enclosure walls are high enough so the foxes don’t jump out

  • @rosethorn20
    @rosethorn20 Год назад

    Since hermitcraft is in 1.20 now, you can just right-click on the signs to edit them rather than having to break them every time. Might be a bit easier when you’re updating the brackets!

  • @anachronisticCat
    @anachronisticCat Год назад +1

    I have 2 fox name ideas: "Terry" and "Fantastic Mr."

  • @JTFRL
    @JTFRL Год назад

    I would make 2 tournaments. Left (1st 8 for a big trofee and right (2nd 8) for the last 8 for a smaller trofee.

  • @Mistycle8
    @Mistycle8 Год назад

    I think star would be a good name! You know, starfox

  • @Werewolf914
    @Werewolf914 Год назад

    Could name the Fox "Fantastic Mr."

  • @invictus50ssl
    @invictus50ssl Год назад

    Wooooo Season Two of TCG - very exciting!

  • @Dredgno
    @Dredgno Год назад

    2:20 xB should have said "Aww man"

  • @Spirit0502
    @Spirit0502 Год назад

    Since there’s 2 columns you could even do 2 separate divisions and the top 4 in each division make the playoffs

  • @emilyvanderkooy4377
    @emilyvanderkooy4377 Год назад

    You could let everyone into the bracketed tournament, but give the top players a natural advantage. So the first brackets would be 1vs14, 2vs13, 3vs12 etc. Theoretically the lowest ranked going into the tournament will get knocked out the quickest, and the highest ranked will have an easier time. Middling players will just be facing other middling players, and it will get more and more competitive and close the closer to finals.
    You could also set it up with more matches and have a two loss and you're out scheme. The first round of matches, winners go to winner bracket losers go to losing bracket (by rankings, theoretically the winners should be the top 8). If you lose in the winning bracket, you drop to the losers bracket. Loser in the losers' bracket, and you're out completely. So the finals will be someone who won every game in the winners' bracket vs someone who only lost one game. It also means weak players aren't out right away, and its a little more forgiving on really unlucky matches. But, it is more matches.
    FRC 2023 did their competitions this way. I don't think only playing the top 8 is as interesting, because the lowest ranked players might lose interest/stop playing before the final tournament because they know they don't have a chance at getting in. But, if you could rise from 10 to 9, that means your first match is against rank 6 instead of rank 5, which is worth competing for.