First--I have not played any single elimination QB in collegiate competitions. Neither have I tried to run a large tournament (although I'd love to try it sometime). I am therefore speaking with no "circuit experience," although I have many times played in single elimination finals in high school. Dismiss these thoughts as radical dreaming of delusions of grandeur if you like. Second, I wonder why there is so much protest over singelim in general if packets have a decent distribution. Maybe it's only me, but I thought playing singelim finals added incredible vigor to tournaments, even when we didn't make it or ended up in the bracket of death against some monster team early on. It certainly made watching the games and progress a lot more more electrifying and enjoyable in a game in which playing is certainly better than watching. Third-- I wonder why this method hasn't been used more than it has in collegiate competition. It seems that more tournaments use short double elimination finals and single playoff matches if they use finals at all. I thought it would have been great to see a single elimination tree at NAQT ICT when there were lots of teams to throw against one another, and lots of good questions (my opinion). Final-- I can understand that being single-eliminated on terrible questions and an unequal distribution would really bite hard. Yet, I see this as a "good vs bad questions issue" than a general finals format forum. Improve the questions, and add more teams and single elimination! 64, 128 team trees if possible (but where to find all of those rooms...) delusions of grandiose radical opinion regarding QB again-- Wesley Mathews
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