Skirmish Rankings and Brackets

dance210: Hi!!   I do the Skirmishes and seed the playoffs the same way   The top 20% of teams go to the Alpha playoffs. The top 21 - 50% of teams go to the Bravo playoffs. The bottom 50% of teams (excluding the red teams) go to the Charlie playoffs.   Within each of those groups you are correct, teams are sorted a) by rank then b) alphabetically based on. When I make the playoffs I start seeding the teams from the top and work my way down the ranks, using S-seeding between all the playoff brackets. If I come to teams that are tied in rank, I randomly select teams within that rank. Why? Because alphabetically is a silly way to sort teams. Each team within a certain rank has an equal chance of being seeded in that playoff position, instead of team "Apple" always getting a higher seed than team "Zebra."   The weekend playoffs are done separately and aren't manually seeded; the tournament tool does that based on whatever algorithm it uses