Chad, do you think receiving byes out to the medal round or possibly even to the final (slim I know) and given a medal is right? Especially if there are better kids getting beat out on the other side?
Perhaps this was not your intention, but what does kids getting beat out on one side of a bracket have to do with 2nd place challenge matches? If a kid gets beat out of a tournament he/she would have no opportunity to challenge for an upgrade in placing in the first place.
What you are talking about would really only be solved by seeding the State tournament, which I'm sure you can imagine would be a disaster of epic proportions. The only other alternative would be to allowed condensed brackets at the state tourny, which again would/could lead to issues.
