At the Espi's they were able to have a double elim bracket which was good for 2 reasons.

a)if you lost a match you could still fight your way back to the finals(i.e. mke's team playing philly for a shot at NYC)

b) the teams that lose once in the bracket still get to play at least one more game and not feel like they came all that way to be kicked out after one bracket game.

Im also for larger round robin pools-- that going along with having traveled so far some teams only played 4 games that were part of the tourney 75$ 12 hours and 4 games? even the winners only played 8 games. more games!! especially when we had 4 courts there.

i also agree for cool awesome prizes for consolation winners and such maybe even DFL prizes.
otherwise the teams arent gonna wanna come if they have to pay a bunch and know they will lose to my team