Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

I'm fully aware of how math works.

You claimed a lack of understanding for why an event can't give 12 matches to 60 teams, when another event can do it for 40. It did appear appropriate to point out the math, since you didn't seem to be taking it into account.

As for "well 12x40 is less than 12x60" no duh. But it's not much less than 10x60,...

Your definition of "much less" probably needs tweaking. 480 is much less than 600. It's 20% less. In the other direction, 600 is fully 25% more than 480.

All other things being equal, having half again as many teams means getting only two thirds as many matches per team. That's just how it works. If you play eighty matches, a 40-team event gets 12 matches per team, and a 60-team event gets 8. Period. In order to give the 60-team event 10 matches per team, you need to play one hundred matches. Twenty more matches is a lot.