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Message: [QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 4707503, member: 830"] Just to clarify your idea, you are talking about running a set of 4-16 team tournaments for the lower ranked teams, with the winner of each getting the last 4 bids (i.e. like a qualifier tournament) That's an interesting idea. I know they use a qualifiers in several sports (e.g. tennis, etc.). 64 qualifier might be a little large, but running expanding to 4 sets of a 4-team qualifier (i.e. 16 teams in total, bringing the tournament to 76 teams), might be interesting. The teams play at the same site of the official first round on the tue/wed (that might be a little tight), or do you announce the qualifier tournament ahead of time, so that they can play Sun/Tue (for the thur first round games) and Mon/Wed (for the friday first round matchups)? Obviously, the qualifiers would be focal to just expand the tournament to 76 teams overall [/QUOTE]