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call it bracketbuster & play on saturdays if travel time is needed.



You want to open up Saturday for high school play? I have a better idea. FA Cup-like tournament involving the top 16 4A, top 10 3A and the top 6 2A/1A/SCISA teams. Increasing the number from 32 to 64 would only add another week, so why not expand the field.

Draw the names out of a hat each week, first team selected is the home team. Play the matches on Saturday. Start the second weekend in March and take a week or two off for spring breaks. Single elimination, no seeding.

Pro's - David vs. Goliath, blind draw, competitive matches at the end of the season
Con's - David vs. Goliath, tournament conflicts, "Hilton Head vs. Clover"



Hurst, I tried to accomplish this under the current tournament rules but can't exceed ten days, start to finish. Your approach sounds good but one must take into consideration that teams can only play a certain amount of regular season games and how is that going to be controlled under your FA format? I would love to see this but then again did not have a lot of favorable if any response to a similar gameplan over two weekends on neutral, local fields. Let's keep throwing ideas out there and see if we can get one to stick!