In my opinion, when you have large brackets such as these and place top 6 instead of top 4, there should be a challenge for 2nd from the backside for the 3rd place finisher provided the person who took 2nd didn't beat the 3rd place finisher to the backside of the bracket. In a sense, the champion of the bracket will have no losses, but the 2nd and 3rd place finishers will each have one loss, so 2 kids will have the same number of losses in the same bracket and both losses come from the same kid (possibly) so a challenge for 2nd would resolve the issue. In fact the 3rd place finisher may actually have a better record within the bracket than the 2nd place finisher due to the sheer number of matches it takes to get to the consolation finals. Just a thought to get the kids some even more mat time. Then again in a 64 man bracket the kids would probably get plenty of mat time \:\)


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