Thread:Grimmaniac/@comment-3125844-20151030220003/@comment-33188476-20160118181859

We did an Episode Battle Royale for the episodes for the first 3 seasons and I think it's a good time to do another tournament, but with all 5 seasons.

Instead of doing the March Madness style for the brackets like we did in the Seasons 1-3 Episode Battle Royale and how we do it in the March Madness Löwen Games, I'm thinking of doing it in a similar style to the World Cup since there will be 110 episodes. This way, it is not single elimination at first, and we can get a more accurate idea of what the favorite episodes of people are.

On my Sandbox, I started testing the style using challonge.com like we always do to generate match ups and brackets. I'm testing things out now so that I have plenty of times to figure out what works best so we can start after season 5.

Currently I have each season broken up into 2 groups (11 episodes each). There are 6 match ups in the group stage and then the episodes with the best records after the match ups advance to the knockout stage where it becomes single elimination. I currently have it at 4 teams coming out of each group, which means 40 teams in the knockout stage. I can also make smaller groups (up to 20) but I don't know if it's better to have 10 groups of 11 or more, but smaller groups.

For the match ups in each round, the seedings of the 11 episodes are random so it doesn't go Round 1: 101 vs 111, Round 2: 101 vs 110, etc.). The one thing I plan on keeping for sure is each group only contains episodes from the same season so the final stage is represented with an even amount of each season, but do ou think it would be better to have 11 random episodes in each group as opposed to the episode order (1-11 and 12-22)?

Sorry for the long message, just playing around with things and looking for feedback.