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Old 08-19-2004, 09:53 AM
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Originally posted by zwoti
and 120 is a strange number for a first round.
Agreed. Let's see if we can figure this out...


So there was 120 matches in Round 1.
There will be 60 in Round 2.
30 in Round 3.
15 in Round 4.

Here's where you run into the problem. An odd number before you get to the end. The best solution would be to have 7 matches & 1 bye.

That would put it down to 8 contestants in Round 5.
From there it's easy... 4, 2, Winner.

It really won't be too hard to fix, but it could have been avoided by having 128 matches in Round 1 instead of 120. Oh well.