I'm all for seeding teams 1-16 (or how ever many get in). I was a part of the seeding meeting when we were AA and loved it.

Just throwing this out there, but what if the semi finals were central and the 1 (highest remaining) seed from the lower state played the 2 (worst remaining) seed of the upper state.
I'm a little biased since I thought us and Bishop England were the best two teams in AAA girls last year. It would have been fun to play that as the state championship game.

I like having it at one site so you can take in multiple games but hate that it's on turf. I get why a school with natural grass wouldn't want that many games on it. I don't know the solution. Maybe girls are at one site and boys at another. You could make it so small schools play Friday at one location and large of the opposite sex at the other. So if two schools from the same school make it, they could still support each other.