Time and/or games played. Let's do some math. A traditional double elim bracket has 10 rounds with a possible 11th round if the hot seat winner loses.

Let's say that we want to do a race to 5 in 8 ball. A game of 8 ball takes on average 12 minutes/game, and let's say the average score in that race to 5 is 5-2, so 7 games total (X 12 min) = 84 min per round.

84 min/round X10 rounds = 840 min or 14 hours it would take to complete.

Also within that tournament there would be an average of 441 total games played across the 63 matches (63 matches X 7 games per match)

So we have our two numbers, 14 HOURS and 441 GAMES

Let's say we convert that to a chip tournament

If I had 32 players and we wanted to play 441 games, that's an average of 14 Chips per player. My average win % per tournament player is 66% meaning if everyone had 14 chips, the winner would have a record of (26-14) So 40 games X 12 minutes per game = 8 HOURS.......so let's say we fuck around for 2 HOURS....

That's still 10 HOURS of Tournament time vs 14 HOURS Double Elim. That's almost 30% quicker in TIME

Now let's say we wanted to have a chip tournament last 14 hours. If we have 16 tables with 5 games per hour per table, that's 80 games per hour, X 14 hours = 1,120 GAMES we can play in that same span. Let's factor in that we use all 16 tables for about 60% of the tournament, then people start getting eliminated, we can still slice off 300 GAMES and STILL play almost double the amount of games in that tournament.

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