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In the swiss-system tournament, the first opponent for each team is based on world rank.

Isnt world rank kind of a mess? Not that this wouldnt be an improvement, but also to consider:

-random draw like domestic cup tournaments
-remove bot teams, they represent most of the top losses by PD last night
-remove tounes. i kid (kinda)
-payroll minimum

just brainstorming

Actually in a true appliance of the swiss system world rank is only kind of a "tie breaker" when it comes to first round:

(1) You hand out seedings before the tourney. In Round I (32 teams for example), 1 - 32, 31 - 2, 3 - 30 and so on.
(2) After first round, you do a new seedings table with all teams based on record. All teams with the same records end up in the same "group". Best team with a 1-0 plays worst team with a 1-0 record, ... same for 0-1 records.
(3) After 2nd round, you do a new seedings table with all teams based on the record....
Best team with 2-0 plays worst team with 2-0 ... best team with 1-1 plays worst team with 1-1 ... best team with 0-2 plays worst team with 0-2.
(4) After 3rd round, you do a new ...

Since there is HCA involved, you might have to tweak a little here and there, but there should be enough free seeding algorithms for that kind of games out there. It´s consistently applied in chess tournaments and it´s well proven.

Yeah, but I cannot think of a better way to seed teams. Maybe someone can find better seeding algorithms as GM-seelenjaeger said. :)

I like the idea of removing bot teams, but maybe payroll minimum is not needed as I don't find any reason for active teams to tank BBB.

By the way, who is Tounes? :P

A country