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Originally Posted by ETL.Soundwave

But if there's a player who is essentially a blank slate in terms of whatever seeding system you're using but still very good you can't just mega micro manage everything or else bias will start creeping into the brackets.

Yeah, this is why some thought needs to go in to a fairer seeding system - I'm not specifically advocating an ad-hoc approach (though it has worked pretty well for local LANs in the past).