almost everything i wanted to say has already been said, but some precisions :
Why would it not be a deserved result? So sprinter X got eliminated in quarter final, but he ran against Usain Bolt, the dominant world champion. If sprinter X can beat all the others and is 2nd best in the world, shouldn't he then have a chance to actually prove that? Right now we would deny him this chance, merely because he had the misfortune to draw vs Bolt early. That's what I call completement dingue. 
like mario said, if the sprinter X has to play against usain bolt in quarterfinal, it s because he didn't play well enough in poules in order to avoid usain in quarterfinal, so this is mr X's fault. it can also be because usain isn't in a very good shape and was't #1 of poules phasis, so he might be beatable in quarterfinal. in conclusion, for me, there is no problem anywhere here (since i think that each poules match is long enough to have accurate results, even if surprises are possible, which is just perfect for me).
but let's admit that there is a problem and that sprinter X should be given another chance. then, he should not play only against one other quarterloser, but against all other quarterlosers, and even against all the other quarterwinners to be sure he should be #2 just behind usain ! with the double elim, the system will still be unfair since a quarterloser can have the luck to play against an outsider who made a great perf in 1/8e, so that he will probably be beaten in every longer match after...
if the loser bracket starts only at quarterfinals, it would increase my personnal feeling that it is "a spolation of the noobs/ average players' playing time for the benefit of top players only". and like mario also said, the main thing is that for me, the CDM is a championship where we
award performances, instead of making everything possible to be sure to give medals to the theorical top players of each mode. so for me, if a top players is eliminated, it is totally part of the cdm, and there is nothing to be against. top players HAVE TO be top players in the facts (the d day), not just in theory or on internet rankings
the other thing is the (for me) huge problem to play a second time in loser bracket against someone you already played in winners bracket : this makes non sense for me, whether the result is the same or not
if this happens however and the result is different, then it would just prove that we can't always say that one player is better than another, it depends of the tracks, the items, the pressure, etc... in the case of X and Y, imagine X beated Y first, then X lost against the future winner of the mode, he played against Y a second time (in loser bracket) and for some reason lost against Y who wins a medal : after the cdm, X will say "come on guys, why Y get a second chance over me and won a medal, and not me? i was knocked out by the future winner, there is 1-1 between me and Y, why should he have an advantage over me? if he also played against the big winner, he would have lost too ! it is unfair, i should be ranked before Y !" => what would you answer to X ?
i also agree neo when he asks not to put someone's participation (even for some modes) into the balance
this is not an argument
but when Mr Meteo pretends that me clbrun, former president, decides of what will be done or not, it pisses me out
so far, i have just given my thoughts about the double elim system and other reforms, exactly like mario / karel / neo / others did. i have only one vote (and no veto), like every ffsmk member, and i use my vote when i am concerned.
about the "it's difficult for clbrun to stop using the power he had several years ago" part, i will just remind that being president of FFSMK has always been a burden for me, i became president only to save the cdm because nobody else wanted to take franck's succession (if there were other candidates, i wasn't aware). i was happy to give my "title" to mario, because i think he would do the job well, but also and especially to get rid of this charge. i don't like such "president power", because in one hand, i wanted to be as democratical as possible, and in the other hand i was tempted to overpass some "unacceptable" (for me) decisions (like for the TT coeff vote
of which i am not proud, but i did what had to be done in my opinion).
so neo's accusation is just a fucking assumption
nothing to add, let's talk about more important things
another point is the twitch spectators wishes : it s a good thing if CDM is followed by many people, but i think it is a mistake to change the cdm in order to satisfy twitch spectators : according to me, we make the cdm for US (i mean us, smk fans, not United States
), not for some internet spectators ! or maybe next year we should give up the TT mode in order to show them more 2 players mode?
for me, spectators are just (well, almost) NOTHING to care about ! if we make the finals sooner in the evening, it is not to enable 200 people to watch it on twitch, it is only to enable each finalist to play in good conditions, without sleeping on his chair
on thing that might be forgotten is that players becomes better each year, so it will be more difficult each year to know if a "X beats Y" result is an exploit / a good perf from X / a bad perf from Y / normal. drew of karel had hard matchs, but the more often they could have won them, it wasn't "unwinnable matchs"! so a double elim will not solve anything (especially since for me tehre is no problem), because there will be much more big matchs in the future, even in 1/8th finals i m sure ! the hierarchy of smk isn't written into stone for eternity*, if a champion fails, it is not injustice / inaccuracy, it is just the end of one champion's reign.
* but chamionship system is 
