Does this tournament format sound good?

[PK_Wonder]

A seeding lottery for placement in a single elimination tournament, as opposed to a standard double elim tourney.

Every player would play 3 to 5 (best of 1) matches against that number of other randomly selected players, and how well they did would determine their seeding/placement on the single elimination bracket, which would then have standard rules. Round robin is ideal, but unfeasible with the 25+ players I am expecting. The "seeding preliminaries" are a modified version of that.

 

[infomon]

What problem(s) are you trying to solve?

A seeding lottery for placement in a single elimination tournament, as opposed to a standard double elim tourney.

At large tournaments, it's common for the TOs to manually construct pools (place top-known players into separate pools, and randomly assign unknowns). The pool results seed a double-elim bracket.

Every player would play 3 to 5 (best of 1) matches against that number of other randomly selected players

If you iron out the mechanics of this, you probably end up with round-robin pools.

 

[shairn]

With 25 players, you can split them into 5 pools of 5 which, if you have even only 10 setups will take roughly an hour to complete. How is it unfeasible?

 

[metalmonstar]

Or since you want to run single elimination bracket you could just run straight swiss (Same number of rounds, more matches, and arguably more accurate).

 

[Mikkelmann]

After the fixes above i think it's really nice