Hello @aggroed !
I hope it is ok when I make suggestion for tournaments in this post:
In my opinion it is not the best way to decide about places trough difference of winning or something else, f.e. when tournament (like often) has 12 prices. It means that from them who lost in round of last 16 four get price and four not.
I have two suggestion for improvement, what you think about:
Why not make additional fight between this eight, just best of 1, who win get the price and who lose not.
Another idea: Why not to share the pricepool for all ? F.E. instead of 1 Steem for 9-12 price will be 0.5 Steem for 9-16
Another possibilty would be just to make prices in power of 2, means 8 or 16 prices, so this problem would not exist.
Would be cool to get feedback from you, thank you very much in progress.