JAK.... They have no clue what we are talking about. The top seed should always play the lowest seed. The way its fomated now the top 2 remaining seeds (1 & 4)should not be playing each other before the championship. The number 1 seeded team earned the spot and their reward is to play the lowest seeded team until they lose or win the championship. If you want to use the Superbowl as your example, the top seeded teams have a bye week, home field and they play the lowest seeded team until they win the championship or lose, when they lose the next highest seeded team becomes the top seed.This is how the State Cup format should be, if we are going to use seedings to start the tourny. The seeding for the U13 boys Challenge should look like this.
week 1 (05/09/09)
1 vs 8 (1 bet 8)
2 vs 7 (7 bet 2)
3 vs 6 (6 bet 3)
4 vs 5 (4 bet 5)
week 2 (5/16/09)
1 vs 7
4 vs 6