I’m realizing the Medina-friendly tournament won’t have traditional seeds. They’re the great barrier to competitive games. The very best play the very worst when we have the most games. There’s a lower chance like teams play one another. As the theoretically most even teams are literally divided.
If you could avoid gamesmanship, I’m thinking this Medina-run event spend the first weekend matching up like seeds. So the 1s play a four team tournament, as do the 2s, 3s etc. We think throwing VT and Stanford into a play-in is good for competitiveness, this supercharges it! In the second weekend, we can pair 1-2, 3-4, 5-6. It would make for a weird final weekend, but we’re here to maximize competitive games, damn if we haven’t done it.
The downside would be, you end up with some gamesmanship, manipulating seeds, so, an alternative would be completely random seeding. Maybe The top two seeds, meat and round one, but if more competitiveness is the Medina dream, well, that would work toward it.
