Hey Everyone, I've posted this before, but it's been 10 months so I thought I should suggest it again.

I think that the space-time tournament should be changed. I don't think it should be an elimination tournament. I think it should be a multilevel elimination tournament. I also don't think it should be randomly seeded.

First off, let me explain what a multi-level elimination tournament does. After every match(or set of matches),the number of brackets doubles so if we have 128 players, each of them will start in 1 tourney, then they will become 2 tourneys; one composed of winners and one composed of losers. Then this will keep going until there are 64 tourneys of 2 players each. At this point you will be able to rank each tourney from 1 to 64 based off the order of winning and losing it took to get to that tourney. Then the final 64 matches will finish and you will be able to rank each player from 1 to 128 based off their final scores. This has the advantage of having every player compete until the very end, while still making it obvious that Tourney 1 always be composed of pure winners.

My second proposal goes along with the first, and that is these tourneys should not be randomly seeded. We already have spacetime points to rank people by, so if we use that we can come up with a decent set-up. In the first tourney player 1 should face player 128, player 2 should face player 127 etc. Now obviously player 1 is going to beat 128, and player 2 will beat player 127, but maybe player 64 might lose to player 65, or player 63 might lose to player 66 etc. It provides more interesting matches for the lower ranked players while guaranteeing that player 10 won't lose immediately just because he was ranked against player 1. Then in the next tourneys you Sort them by space-time points again and do the same thing.

The whole goal of this is guarantee as many interesting matches at possible throughout, while also guaranteeing that nobody is screwed over merely by bad luck. It's also better than the current system because everyone can be ranked from 1 to 128 at the end. Right now in the current system 3rd place and 4th place are the same, but they're so high up in power that it shouldn't have to be the case.

Let me know what you think of my suggestion, tell me why it's right, why it's wrong etc.