so you basically want it like Football, so that teams cant "cinderella" their way thru a tournament and make a DEEP run to either a region or even STATE tournament bid... *sigh* yeah Regular Season MEANS SOMETHING, especially in those districts that have an uneven number of teams, ya finish first you more than likely just have a Bye to the Region Tournament(just seeding matches after that) but for those who didn't do as well they have to play their way in, I've seen some teams pull off massive upsets as 5 and 6 seeds in 6-7 team districts and put a good run at trying to get to the Sub State, so what point are you trying to get at here... would you rather we just do like Football and just go "ok we just take 4 teams from each district(news flash some classes have districts that only have 3 due to enrollment issues, and/or sanctions), and just play straight to the big house from 64 teams; yeah... no, we've had this System for a while now and it ain't changing and MOST of the time it gets it right... i can tell ya what i have a problem with... "Blind drawing" the Elite 8 for each... how about we SEED the teams and then pair them that way(putting teams from the same district on opposite ends of the bracket obviously) and do it that way... yeah ideal idea but never gonna happen *sigh*