100% looks like we are going to have to make a revision to how the rounds will work (due to numbers). Here's what I'm thinking.
Round 1: No one gets eliminated. This way, if anyone signs up after October 1, they won't be at a disadvantage. But the real point of this is that it will allow us to divide everyone into groups equally. Now there is two ways we can go about doing this:
- Say we have 24 participants. Round 2, would have 6 pools of 5, so we take the top 6 and throw them into one pool, places 7-12 in another pool and so on.
- Take the top 6, put one in each pool, take 7-12 and put one in each pool, etc.
Round 2: So we still have 24 people. We'll cut down to 12. Top two from each pool move on.
Round 3: 2 pools of 6. Top 4 from EACH pool move on. (Total of 8 people move to Round 4).
Round 4: He is where we can have fun! Now we do one-on-ones! We do something like this (each round lasts 2-3 weeks?):
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For the people eliminated in the quarter finals, we can set up a 3rd place competition (in other words, it takes two loses to be eliminated):
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And this will bring us to the middle of March 2015. So it all works out really.
Ya, I took this idea from 2008, but it could work and be fun...at least for me!