[ColleenShaver]

We will be discussing the eighth-finals breakdown at our next BC Planning Meeting. This will include who plays who, if anyone gets a bye, and how many matches determine the eighth finals.

Last year, we played 15v18 and 16v17 to determine the "15th" and "16th" seeds, and proceeded into eighth finals that way. This year, there has been discussion to give the top teams byes past the eighth finals.

Thanks to Mike E who has already crunched some numbers for us, it looks like ~80% of the time, the winner of the first set of 3 matches determines the winner of the set, so it is likely the eighth finals will remain a single match. We do the math/consider that data every year to determine whether 1-2 matches will decide the eighth finals.