I gotcha. If I am correct,to enter the Top 16/8 or something,you need to participate in a pool. Think of pools as smaller tournaments. If you win that pool,you can go on to the main thing. Brackets are basially who is playing who. I might be wrong though.
Better way to phrase it may have been “getting 9th place at CEO meant getting put out in Loser’s Finals of your bracket”
Pools is usually defined as all the brackets before some arbitrary placement tier, i.e. Top 16 or Top 32, but can also be used interchangeably with “bracket” depending on context - i.e. “I was in Pool 2 at CEO”.
From what I can tell, for CEO you needed at least 4 wins to get ninth place. Going 3-2 would put you in Top 16.
Woo! Top 16 hype!
If that’s the case, I’ll take it! 
Seriously, top 16 out of 115 total registered competitors? Very cool.
Ooh…think I messed up on this. I forgot that getting sent to Loser’s means you wind up playing “extra” matches, so you can’t really go just by number of wins. In my defense, I didn’t actually go to sleep last night… 
Here’s the brackets for CEO. You can find your placement there:
any of you going to be at EVO?
Here’s a shoutout to @DarkLrdChuckles for rolling into some sets with me today and showing me the ropes! And by ‘showing me the ropes’ I mean ‘wrecking me against them’ with, like, every possible character. 
Fun games man, and thanks!
Also, had quite a few close games as I battled through the silver ceiling and into gold this morning - gg and wp if I saw any of you there!
What character was I using at the time?
You played RAAM vs his Spnal
Oh geez, my RAAM isn’t particularly good, and I was on stream. 
I have already seen the bracket info, which is why it seems so confusing to me, and why I asked for clarification. According to it, I made 9th place, as did a bunch of other people. Many others tied for other places within and across brackets too. What I don’t understand is why this is and why I got 9th place and Ostrich got 5th if we both went 3-2.
Actually, here’s a question that might answer something: @TheNinjaOstrich, how many did you win BEFORE going into the losers bracket? 'Cause I won only 1 before getting sent to losers, and then won the other 2 in losers. If you can answer this question with an answer that I think you’ll give, it’ll show that more weight is (obviously) given to wins outside of the losers bracket, hence the higher placement (which would make a lot of sense, considering that seems to be the case with the top 8 I always see at tournaments).
Those were some fun matches…We definitely gotta do that again sometime soon 
I won 3, then lost 2. In that order.
Didn’t go 5th though. Got 17th. Just short of Top 16.
If you look at the brackets, the #5 is next to your name and #9 is next to mine. That’s what’s confusing me.
Well, just remember that the whole top two lines of that list is people in Top 8 - I certainly didn’t make 3rd place in the tournament. The numbers beside our names are not dispositive of our placing in the whole tournament. The numbers are where you wound up placing within your own bracket. I got 3rd place out of my bracket, while Ostrich tied for 5th in his. You tied for 9th in your bracket, but that’s quite a bit further down in rankings for the tournament writ large (but still good!)
Ggs @DulXboxOne