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« on: June 22, 2012, 05:16 AM »
First: How about limiting the ability to host host several public cups to only one. This way we may get a healthy variety of moderators and less waiting time for mods, that have no cup running already, but let's say one Throsti takes up all the space with three cups. No offense to Throsti.
Second (and far more important): Have you every thought of including a double elimination bracket for the play offs? I don't mean to remove the standard KO stage, but enabling the moderator to choose between them both for every cup in particular. In my opinion double elimination bracket is far superior in terms of fairness. By fairness I mean that in the standard brackets sometimes the two best players of the tournament square off in the round of 16 already and one of them has to go, despite that he probably deserves at least the silver medal. With the double elimination bracket one is not eliminated after one loss only, he can still fight his way to the final through the loser's bracket. In short: the probability that the three medals are taken by really the best three players of the cup are much higher.
If you don't know how exactly the DE bracket works you can either google it or ask me for a more detailed description.