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@JonoMarshall
"Two finals" is flawed by definition. You're allowing the format to rule the spectacle. The games should either be consistent times (10 mins = lame) or a longer length and one final.
Negative, the winner would have lost once (under whatever "normal" conditions) and then fought their way back past every team, with more fatigue and (potentially) more bike failure to then play a 20/30minute "deciding" final only to be told that they need to play again. Double finals wreak of "status quo" and "one-on-one play" for my liking. In an ideal world the winning team would accept the challenge from the losers bracket and prove their worth in one final final final.
Maths doesn't always work, for example: In a quadruple elimination, would you feel it's fair to ask the losing bracket team to play 4 times in succession?