Premier SuperCopa provides playoff
opportunities for EVERY participating team. Teams are grouped into the
SuperCopa, Gold, Silver, or Bronze bracket AND seeded within that
bracket based on their points from the group round.
After the SuperCopa group stage completes for all brackets (first three games), the group winners (32 team groups) and highest point wildcards (for groups of 24 teams or less) comprise the top 8 teams and make up the SuperCopa bracket, the next 8 teams the Gold bracket, the next 8 teams the Silver bracket, and the remaining 8 teams the Bronze bracket.
Playoff opponents are chosen by
seeding teams based on total points. Example, if the winner of bracket C
has 30 points after their first three games and they have the highest total
points among all teams then they will be placed as the 1st seed and will play the 8th seed. In the event that multiple teams are tied then tiebreaker rules
(see Tournament Rules) will apply to determine seeding.
Quarterfinal opponents are defined
by the following seeding:
1st vs 8th 2nd vs 7th 3rd vs 6th 4th vs 5th
Once the Quarterfinals are set, the single elimination tournament will play out as scheduled. There is NO reseeding after the Quarterfinals.
The
8 teams that make up the Silver and Bronze brackets will be determined by total
points from the Group Round games, and seeding inside the brackets will be
determined by total points as well.
Because
variety of competition is a significant element of SuperCopa, the tournament
committee reserves the right to adjust seeding by 1 position to avoid teams
facing each other in quarter-finals who have already played each other during
group rounds. Seeding adjustments are at the complete discretion of the
tournament committee but will not be made to affect which playoff bracket a
team has earned a spot in.