Didn't Hurley have to lose twice?

Are you sure you had to lose twice, I don't remember hearing that in the movie, (sarcasm obviously). Anyway, I would think that the final two contestants would just have one match to determine the winner. I mean imagine if both of them were undefeated coming in, that means they could possibly have three more matches before crowning a champ and I don't think they would want to do that.

I always wondered if Grizzly lost twice. I just know that Hawk beat em in the rematch, but I don't remember anyone else beating him.

Not sure if this is correct but it's possible that Hurley was disqualified after punching Hawks in the nose during the final match, which would have given him his first loss. Bull was probably so confident in his ability to win that he was willing to take a DQ just so he could send Hawks that little "message", knowing he wouldn't be eliminated by doing so.

First of all, watch the tournament scene again. The announcer REPEATEDLY says that it's a double elimination tournament. He even went into detail with something along the lines of, "if you lose once, you still have a shot to win." However, with that being said, Bull didn't have to lose twice. The double elimination applies to every match EXCEPT for the championship match.

In a team sport I get the losers bracket double elimination. I would also get that in the finals it is one match too a winner.

I could be wrong, because it's been a very long time since I watched this movie, but doesn't the announcer at some point after the qualifying rounds say something like "now it's single elimination?" I swear that I remember hearing something like that when there were only eight finalists left...

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The double-elimination stipulation didn't apply to the championship match.