the bracketing was an olympic pool this is no differnt then having three or four kids on two diff sides of the bracket and the winner of each side goes into the finals. the only difference is that there are not a bunch of back side matches to get in for third. Also it is really hard to seed these little kids so this makes the champ a little more accurate in my opinion! Loved the tourney! It was alot of fun and yes dryden lost in the finals. kansas was represented well!