Contest #20: Tournament

[Kevin]

System Swiss is almost the best system to rank the players in as few rounds as possible. In the real system, we use the players' ratings to determine the seeds. Here of course we used a totally randomized seed, but the system is still clearly more effective. Other than not being able to see the next opponent and play the next round beforehand, this system has in my opinion no downfall compared to the elimination mode.

Elimination system works pretty well with seeds. I saw C2 tournament used double-elimination system because they have the ratings of every player. But here we don't have such thing, so I personally agrees that System Swiss is the fairest system.

Besides, System Swiss isn't that rude to just kick out half of the players after just one round. Even weaker players will have the chance to enjoy the full tournament.