To achieve the aim of having no one play the same opponents in round 1 as in round 2 (very sensible) you need to have a structure such as this

Round 1 - 6 games of X top 3 progress (X depends on number of applicants)

Round 2 - 3 games of 6 - top 3 progress

Round 3 - 1 game of 9

Key point is that you need to have the same number of games in round 2 as qualifiers per round in round 1.

Would also make sense to create a google doc with the groups / results in it.

Oh and I'm in

Would we want to broadcast the last game? Keep the eliminated players interested?
We could just put the videos on the forum.

Broadcasting games live changes the dynamics - as if your playing you can then watch the videos to get Intel you wouldn't otherwise have had! Suggest better to record and then publish once the game is over?

Well, we could do it on the honor system. That's how Ron did it in the official broadcast game

But of course, publishing afterwards doesn't have too big an impact. I just wouldn't want to watch 8 fifteen minute recap videos. Give me 8 one minute commentaries on the "last 24 hours"

Please count me in for this tournament as well!

I thought I posted here but it was in another topic about a tournament I guess. I'd like to join as well.

I'm in. I would like to cover the entire tournament (newscaster style), and am very interested in more of these organized events happening.

The main problem I can see would be making the games visible to all players. Doesn't the "open games" panel only display games on your server?

Or would you make them private games?

Count me in!

What should this tournament be called?
Actually, now that I think about it, in the future there should be a 'tournaments' page for all user organised tournaments, that would be cool