I understand the concern about how we would go about seeding the tournament but understand why we got where we are. We used to pick 4 from every region across the state but there are a couple of regions where soccer isn't strong enough to put 4 teams in the tournament so now we have regions with 5 teams in. That causes problems because before it was simply that a region paired with another region but that won't work with uneven representation so we have what we have now with #5 teams playing #2 teams.
Another recent change is that we used to rotate the region you were paired with and that helped keep everybody happy but now we have permanent region matchups for only one reason....travel costs. So we in Region 1 are forever linked with the strongest region in the state. Ask Michael Young what it was like being the #1 seed having to play outstanding region 2 teams in the first round. Seriously if we had seeded it back then he might have been seeded BEHIND some of those 4 seeds, but I digress.
What an open seeding system does is allow the conversation of who deserves what seeding and makes an attempt to pair things equitably. If this is such a horrible idea then why does the NCAA and high school football do it that way?
