<<Would you prefer they send you home?
Perhaps have you play a team you are terribly mismatched
against?>>
No. I'd rather play four games against *four
different* teams of similar ability rather than play two
teams of similar ability twice.
There is no
*fundamental* reason, once you're eliminated from both the UG
and overall titles, to use ladder play; the field
could be split into groups of five or six, from the
bottom up, and play either a full or partial
RR.
--STI
P.S., Personally, if I had my druthers, I'd play seven
or eight power matching rounds, and find some way to
dispense with the ladder play altogether....