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"the ideal form of the last rounds should be 1-4 3-2 or 1-8 5-4 3-6 7-2."
This is from the notes blog, and has been in practice from quite some time, but I have never thought it made any sense. You can have the top players meet in the final round (in theory), but why should the second-highest rated player get the bottom slot? Rather, it could be:
1-3 2-4 or 1-4 2-3 for 4 players, and 1-5 3-7 2-6 4-8,
which would still permit the top two seeds to meet in the "finale"
Fencer, Pioneer54, volant and joshi tm: Could we have the choice of all 3. Random could be default, then the way it is now and also the way Pioneer has it (1-5 3-7 2-6 4-8) which is fairer and the one i think would be me popular