Scarab, now that you're changing it anyway, why not reducing the amount of byes? Now 7 teams will get a bye in the first round which is quite a lot. If you're not focussing on having 16 teams in the second round you can reduce the amount of total byes given through the entire tournament from 7 to 3. It goes like this:
We got 25 teams at the start.
12 play vs 12, 1 gets a bye
We got 13 teams left now.
6 play vs 6, 1 gets a bye
We got 7 teams left now.
3 play vs 3, 1 gets a bye
We got 4 teams left.
2 play vs 2, no byes
We got 2 teams left.
1 team play vs 1 team in the finals.
Note the reduced amount of byes here.
But more important! Almost everyone can play in the first round. Being on a "bye" team before, I kinda hated it to miss all the first round action and wait a week to play. Of every "fun" tournament like this one, the first round is always the best one, since it's most crowded.
Fun was the main goal of it right? Well having almost everyone playing in the first round is most fun for everyone. Please reconcider the 7 first round byes. Thx.------------------
Breydel
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