
No second life
Knockout introduced rounds without respawns. Its original elimination-and-damage tiebreaker came before the later poison-cloud format. An April 9 fix also addressed matches running up to thirteen minutes after drawn rounds.

Knockout · original rules
Win two rounds to take the match. Defeated Brawlers stayed out until the next round. If a round timed out, eliminations decided the result first; damage dealt broke an elimination tie. Ten maps entered the original rotation.
- Match target
- 2 round wins
- Launch rotation
- 10 maps
- Original tiebreaker
- Eliminations, then damage
Knockout’s April 2021 reveal shows rounds without respawns. This is the launch version, before poison clouds replaced its original tiebreaker.










