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Single elimination brackets are rarely used at Smash tournaments for multiple reasons. One such reason players dislike single elimination is that half the players are eliminated having only played a single match (and every player overall gets to play significantly fewer matches). Another reason is that just having one bad match or encountering one [[Counter (matchup)|bad matchup]] can result in a premature elimination for a player that would have placed better otherwise, thus giving less room for error, and overall less accuracy in the results. Single elimination also offers much less difference in placing, making them less useful for ranking players' performance.

===Arcadian format===

An Arcadian is a tournament format where all the ranked players from a specific region are banned from participating, therefore only allowing the unranked players to participate and for ascending players to reach the ranked territory. Arcadians still feature the same rulesets as other tournaments however. Most Arcadians also force any player to not participate even if their not from the state. However, tournament organizers usually screen out-of-state players before they can play. Arcadians are most common at local and regional tournaments, but are still uncommon as a whole. Notably, [[2GG: Breakthrough]] holds the record for the largest Arcadian tournament within the ''Smash'' series.

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 Single elimination brackets are rarely used at Smash tournaments for multiple reasons. One such reason players dislike single elimination is that half the players are eliminated having only played a single match (and every player overall gets to play significantly fewer matches). Another reason is that just having one bad match or encountering one [[Counter (matchup)|bad matchup]] can result in a premature elimination for a player that would have placed better otherwise, thus giving less room for error, and overall less accuracy in the results. Single elimination also offers much less difference in placing, making them less useful for ranking players' performance.
+===Arcadian format===
+An Arcadian is a tournament format where all the ranked players from a specific region are banned from participating, therefore only allowing the unranked players to participate and for ascending players to reach the ranked territory. Arcadians still feature the same rulesets as other tournaments however. Most Arcadians also force any player to not participate even if their not from the state. However, tournament organizers usually screen out-of-state players before they can play. Arcadians are most common at local and regional tournaments, but are still uncommon as a whole. Notably, [[2GG: Breakthrough]] holds the record for the largest Arcadian tournament within the ''Smash'' series.
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