Board Thread:Wiki News/@comment-33188476-20160119051508

After season 5, I plan on doing another Episode Battle Royales. We did one after season 3 in the same March Madness bracket style as the March Madness Löwen Games.

This time around I'm planning on doing it as more of a World Cup style since there will be 110 episodes. It will be broken down as 10 groups of 11 with 2 per season. Each episode is randomly assigned to which of the 2 groups they will be in. The tournament will start with a group stage where there will be 6 round robin matches. The problem is because the groups have an uneven amount of episodes, 6 teams will have 1 less match than the others so the tournament can't go only on wins like it normally would otherwise it could be unfair for episodes that were in 1 less match. I currently plan on having 6 episodes from each group advance into a knockout stage, which is the March Madness style. 12 teams from each season will be represented and 4 teams will have to have a bye in the first knockout round.

So, since we can't go off match wins to decide which episodes advance, I think of the options to rank the results on Challonge (the bracket site) which are Match Wins, Points Scored, Points Differential, and a Custom Points system (assign custom amount of points for wins/ties), I think that points differential will be the only one that doesn't matter how many matches are played. The only problem is there is an outside chance that an episode with a worse record will advance over an episode with a better record because the point differential is better. I don't want wins to be completely ignored because they're pretty important, but the options are limited.

Any feedback on what should be done is welcome. This won't start until after season 5, like I said already, so there is plenty of time to figure things out. 