By what time must an alliance have their defenses selected?

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by DareDad

With 60 teams, the gap between matches for any team will generally be in the 6 to 12 match range.

If the round was set at 10 for 60 teams you would guarantee that some teams would be playing twice in each round.

I could play in the 8th match of round six and the 3rd match of round seven and the 8th match of round 8. That would mean I would have two vastly different break lengths while keeping the round length the same.

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

I could play in the 8th match of round six and the 3rd match of round seven and the 8th match of round 8. That would mean I would have two vastly different break lengths while keeping the round length the same.

Yes you could. My point was that if there are 60 teams at an event, even though the "natural" round size is 10 it's guaranteed that there will be teams repeating before that 10.

It's a moot point really, we'll know what the FMS does in a few weeks.

It could be variable, it could be static at floor(teamCount/6) or it could be static at floor(teamCount/6) minus some number.

Whatever it is we'll deal with it.

[ATannahill]

You can read up on how the rounds and matches are generated here.