[PShabi]

I've done some research on weighting the rounds. From what I've read the following weighting seems to work well:

1-2-3-5-8-13

I don't like the default 1-2-4-8-16-32 because it renders the first round pretty much useless. From what I gathered, the fibonacci (super nerd time) sequence of 1-2-3-5-8-13 is a better method. Sooooo, let's go with that.

Last year, the pool I did gave points added for the seed picked, but only in Round 1. So, as stated above, a #12 wins and you pick 'em, you've got 13 points for that win in the first round. It was really fun, so we're going to go with that as well for first round only.

I'm sure $10 would get more people in, so we'll keep it at $10. I'm going to finish setting this up now. I don't THINK anyone would be a big enough douchebag to go to the contest and fill out a bracket without paying, but if they did, it would fuck up the contest, so I'll collect money through my Stars account and ship the pw once the entry is received. I'm off all week for Spring Break so I'll be around enough to keep this flowing easily.

The only thing left to discuss is payouts. Winner take all is fine with me. We could also pay the top 3 or just give #2 their money back and winner takes rest. We'll decide this by tonight.

I'm gonna finish setting up the scoring and get the pw for the contest. Should be fun and I will most definitely win, so yeah, it's gonna be awesomer.