In bracketing they also have this thing called "seeding" designed to do what Syd is talking about, and not have two solid teams have one knock each other out in the beginning. I think for our purpose a randomly started bracket is a decent way to do it, but lame things can happen.

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The problem with assigning "interesting matches" is that it's not fair. You can essentially pick who's gonna win the whole thing. I did consider seeding, but seeding by what?

Ya abuse is a concern, but it doesn't have to be the case. Obviously even the most possible abuse, which i don't think will be an issue, could not garuntee you a win for whatever team you like best.

Another possible way to seed, would be by experience. What i mean is just have the moderators get together, look at the teams who applied. And they have a good idea of whose who on the forum, they'll know basically who is the #1 seed so to speak, the most favored, and who else is close, and spread them out on the initial brackets, to offer a more dramatic build up for forum battle.

You wouldn't want the experienced well known, and or just well liked posters all to kill each other off at the beginning, then the last match up is them first some random people, and they just win the final match up by a landslide.

Post count might be another relevant benchmark, and the only thing this seeding match ups would effect is the starting up of the initial bracket.

There are many ways to do it fairly... but obviously certain ways make for more climatic/dramatic battles.

The forum can do it however they want.. I don't think spreading out teams is bad, it's obviously done in many real life brackets. Just put some people on the top part of the bracket others on bottom fill in the rest let it go. This is about fun, and if that's more entertaining so be it.

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Arg Usa, copying my idea of copying Sehk!!