When 36 teams take part in the competition, it takes 35 games to decide the champion.
Because the number of elimination matches is relatively small, it is often used in large-scale competitions. In order to ensure relative fairness, lottery and seed teams have been developed, which will not affect the number of competitions.
Advantages and disadvantages of elimination:
Advantages:
1 the competition is fierce because the negative side of a single defeat will be eliminated. Except for the final qualifying consolation match, every round of the knockout round is crucial, so there is no meaningless game.
It can accommodate a large number of contestants in a short time, so it has become the competition form of many competitions.
Disadvantages:
1 is not suitable for games that may have many draws. For example, draw is very common in chess, and white is the first advantage, so it is often necessary to play one more game in each round to decide the outcome, so it is not suitable. In addition, in football matches, after a draw, it is often necessary to play overtime or even take a penalty (12 yard penalty) to decide the outcome.
Most of the contestants may be eliminated prematurely, and there are only a few games, so some games adopt a lose-lose elimination system.
References:
Elimination system _ Baidu Encyclopedia