That's what our district voted to do last year. The biggest problem for us as tournament directors is moving matches. With a split format, the match numbers are too close together so, we have to let the matches run out. With this format it is very hard to get out early. We are running a straight through tournament for our district, and, no doubt we will get done earlier. Henry and I have some great results with moving matches. Our tournament last year had 510 kids and we were done at 2:30. 4 years ago we had 1350 kids in Topeka and were done with mats being loaded on trailers by 5:30. There's no way we can do that with a split tournament when the afternoon session starts at 1:00 or later. We do mat management for a lot of tournaments and highly discourage it for those reasons. If you have a split format tournament with those kind of numbers and get finished by that time of day, I can only say one thing. Great job.