Brackets are multiple square-shaped boxes used to arrange or analyze a series of games played during a competition.
This will surely elate those teams which now get to remove a loss from their record and frustrate those teams which must remove a win from their record , but the alternative, giving a win-by-forfeit to any team that has not played the team that has dropped out, is worse.
In women's play, the first round of the double elimination could be an abbreviated game to 11, since no one gets eliminated after only one game.