The 2012 World Championship Series Global Finals will feature a double elimination group stage and a single elimination playoff bracket.
Playing on Xbox 360 consoles in a single elimination tournament, some of the biggest names in pro wrestling got their game on before WrestleMania in front of a live audience at the fan axxess event. 2K Sports also live streamed the tournament through Twitch for all fans to watch from home.
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So a new playoff round, either a best-two-of-three or a single game elimination, may well happen.
In previous years, this took weeks of single contestant elimination.
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I'm not arguing for single-elimination in the NBA or NHL: I think you could do best-of-5 in the first two rounds, then best-of-sevens for the conference finals and finals.
Steven Murray, a Colorado Mesa University professor who has studied the history of sports, said the concept that inspired the bracket a single-elimination sporting competition with many rounds isn't a modern invention.
No sporting event has greater popularity or higher stakes than soccer's World Cup, and they manage to sort that whole clambake out in about a month with a round-robin group stage that shifts to a single-elimination knockout round.
The major reason obviously is a single-game elimination in which they may have to use their ace starting pitcher, making him unavailable until Game 3 of a five-game division series.
"There are numerous examples of proxy proposals that combine multiple changes to a single corporate document, including elimination of the 'blank check' authority to issue preferred stock, " Apple stated.
The biggest single change would be the elimination of the Alternative Minimum Tax, a parallel version of the income tax that was introduced in 1969 to ensure that rich Americans could not avoid paying tax altogether by taking too many deductions.
Peter has also helped us single out more than a hundred programs for elimination that have outlived their purposes, and made hard decisions that will save tens of billions of dollars.
Arsenal's elimination means that for the first time since 1996, there will not be a single English team in the quarterfinals -- a fact not lost on Wenger.
Casualties include a scale-back of the Airborne Laser program to enable enemy missile interceptions during their early launch phase, along with the elimination of the Multiple Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptor which uses small warheads on a single rocket to handle decoys and offer a better chance of success.
This included a scale-back of the Airborne Laser program to enable enemy missile interceptions during their early launch phase, along with the elimination of the Multiple Kill Vehicle and Kinetic Energy Interceptor which uses small warheads on a single rocket to handle decoys and offer a better chance of success.
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