[EricH]

For those wanting an 8-1 first round (no matter the second round), IT PROBABLY WON'T HAPPEN.

Think about it.

You know that if you are first seed, you pick last in the first round. The best teams will be gone by then. That's also assuming you aren't picked by someone lower than you! So you want to pick earlier. The logical thing to do is to drop a match or two to pick earlier...but your partners now hate you for doing that...and you can't predict how matches go.

This aside from the fact that the #9 team called up would be higher than #8, unless you also barred picking within the top 8, which probably won't go over well either.

It just doesn't make sense.