I made it clear at our subdistrict seeding meeting that I believe 5 man brackets should be round robin. Someone stated that it was a state rule that they be bracketed. Silly
I still think that was a misinterpretation of the rule but I would defer to Richard on that. I can't remember anything in the rules that would preclude us from bracketing 5 man as round-robins. I would prefer it from the standpoint of if they have one man scratch they automatically by rule have to be rebracketed to a 4 man round-robin anyway. HOWEVER, I do not want any future rules to read that if a bracket drops AFTER seeding into a 5 man bracket that it has to be rebracketed to a round-robin. BUT, if at the time of seeding, a bracket has only 5 men, then make it a round-robin!