Before the finals a walked down the wall where the brackets are just to see some of the names of kids who were in the finals.... As I looked I noticed that on nearly all the brackets that nether the #1 nor #2 seed made it to the finals... I dont/havent attended many of the major kids tournaments but I would assume that a tournament of this magnitude would have 1-3 kids that would clearly be seeded above the rest.

An example... the 16U 120 bracket was a 16 man bracket with only about 10 people in it. The top half of the bracket had 4 high school state qualifiers and 2 high school state placers. The bottom half of the bracket had only 1 state qualifier. The kids who placed 3rd at 119 in HS this year was placed in the middle of the bracket and was by far the best person in this bracket...

The questions is should big tournaments do a better job at seeding the good kids especially to separate the #1 and #2?