Board Thread:Smashpedia Business/@comment-12408658-20130930194449/@comment-8-20131001180104

So probably the best tournament format would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:48TeamBracket (which just needs three extras - maybe "guest characters" from other games?)

The winners of the first round fight the characters that weren't in the first round, which means you don't need to have 64 participants to even it out.

So I think the things that need to be done are to create the list of characters (randomized); create the tournament page with a template to keep track of who wins each round; and create a voting page or pages to have the actual "battle". Those could be on blogs, forums, whatever

And, I guess the other decision is "when". Do you want to do this soon? or as an event closer to the new game release - in which case there might be more characters and a change of tournament set up needed

These are just my thoughts of course, all in all it seems fun!