No semifinal matches in D-1 state tournament?

[xqqqqme]

Does anyone know why there are no semifinal matches in the D-1 tournament this year?

 

They have had them in the past, and they had them this year in the D-2 tournament. But now the bracket winners go straight to the championship game. Why the format change?

[Welshdragon]

Does anyone know why there are no semifinal matches in the D-1 tournament this year?

 

They have had them in the past, and they had them this year in the D-2 tournament. But now the bracket winners go straight to the championship game. Why the format change?

 

 

They did the same with the boys D1 state in the fall.

[schsdad02]

Supposedly the "coaches" were polled and the consensus was to not have to play four games. I don't think it was a good idea because if a team lost its first match, there was little effort in the second. If the coaches or TSSA think that four games is too many for a weekend (which I tend to agree), then there should be rankings and make it single elimination. You could see in most of the second matches for a team that had previously lost that there was little to play for.