A full on knock out competition a la Tennis tournos etc. Open to all, but with the 'seeded' players at various points within the board.
Simple Example: say there are 64 entrants. This is split into 4 sets of 16, with the top seeded players filling one slot in each (a la Wimbledon). The seeded would naturally be the most senior ranks. (there would always have to be a system such as 64,128,256,512 etc. I imagine we could well end up with 2048, 4096 or even 8192 entrants! A real feather in the cap of the finalists)
The competition would carry nil points, however, the winner, runner up and 3rd place could have say a Star by their name for the duration, that is to say until the next comp. The Star would denote their finishing place, with the standard message (Winner, Runner up, 3rd place) showing if someone else put the cursor over it.
This would mean any ranks might cause an upset and could feel proud for having this record (we could even have a page of results with the list of previous winners.)
I put this forward a thought....as there (along with dice issues) seems to be a lot of discussion about the points system.
We already have easy points of reference (Tennis etc) so could plagurise that system.
