I'm nuts. Let's add two more rounds to the tournament. How about we do 10 rounds of power matching and Swiss pairs and menage a trois and over-the-top-rope battle royale and Circassian circle jerk and whatever else scheduling formats you want to come up with, ranking teams 1 to whatever. Then we follow that up with Adam's "up-down" round, except only we divide into groups of 6 in either a 36 or 42 team ICT, so the bottom two of each group of six play the top two of the next group of six. For a 42 team tournament, we have 24 teams playing in the "up-down" round. The only question is whether 10 rounds of <insert your algorithm here> is enough to sort teams into a close enough ranking, such that the "up-down" round will smooth the edges. The you break into divisions of 6, and play a round robin, ranking teams 1 to 6 within each bracket, and putting those rankings end to end gives you the entire tournament field ranked top to bottom, one to infinity, pitcher to catcher. If NAQT wants, they can have the one-game advantage rule for a best two-out-of-three finals. 10 rounds of whatever. 1 up-down round. 5 playoff bracket rounds. 1 or 2 finals rounds. Hey, that's 18 rounds! We had 17 at the ICT. That's only one more round. I miscounted. And they wrote 20 rounds this time around. Everyone gets at least 15 games. Is 30 more minutes in the day that hard to find?
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