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Regions will be on Friday, Saturday & Sunday with a double elimination format.

First year the regions will be made up of
North: D12, 15 & 16
South: D4, 9 & 8
East: D2, 10 & 11
West: D3, 5, & 6.

A rotation will be established with at least a different north district going to the East or West every year. I believe the west will alternate also so that 3 & 6 are rotated around a bit. Also to even out the 3 & 2 team change from year to year.

I'm sure number one West will play number 2 East and Number 1 East will play number 2 West in the first round of the State tourney. They will also be in the same side of the bracket.....just being obnoxious before all of the other posters complain about how unfair it will be for the city teams. GB

Smart move, love the double elimination format!!!

How is the double elimination structured? Is it a bracket play allowing a team to come through the back door?

I ask this because regions already was sort of double elimination with the pool play format. I mean you got to play three games regardless if you won or loss. The nice thing is you weren't eliminated if you lost your first game. As a matter of fact you could still make it to state if you lost your opening pool play game.

Just curious how it will be structured.

JoltDelivered wrote:How is the double elimination structured? Is it a bracket play allowing a team to come through the back door?

I ask this because regions already was sort of double elimination with the pool play format. I mean you got to play three games regardless if you won or loss. The nice thing is you weren't eliminated if you lost your first game. As a matter of fact you could still make it to state if you lost your opening pool play game.

Just curious how it will be structured.

Typically, a double elimination tournement means "double elimination". Complete with a loser out bracket etc. I would almost like state to go with pools, but what the heck.

If I'm not mistaken, didn't regions used to be double elimination bracket play, allowing a team to come through the back door? Didn't MN Hockey in recent years change regions to pool play?

Pool play for some regions were set up as double elimination. The winner of the winners bracket gets an auto bid, and the loser of that champianship game would then have to play the winner of the loser bracket for the second spot to go to state. Much better than pool play and no tie breakers are needed.