[santosh]

How about this.
Instead of only the top 8 alliances getting to play in the playoffs, everyone gets to play.
You are seeded by your rank at the end of qualification matches.
The top 8 teams select based upon the same way as Mr. Bill Moore said.
So that right there takes out 24 teams out of the pickings.

Now the next top 8 seeds (if there are atleast 24 teams left) that haven't been picked yet, get to choose teams that are left over in the same fashion, and so on and so forth till all the teams get picked.
The number of alliance captains in each of the sets of the pickings depends on the number of teams left to pick. Does that makes sense? Kinda confusing.

I relaly would like to see 4 teams alliances like JHerbie53 said. Kinda like the pre 6 bots on the field era. Like where we had 3 teams per alliance, but only 2 played on the field at once, except we would have 4 team alliance where 3 played on the field.