Just a couple of ideas (really nothing radical) I've got, so that people can talk me out of them and/or suggest improvements ahead of whenever this ends up happening:
- No automatic qualification for the top 64 or whatever posters - nominations only. I felt last time, and a few others commented, that a lot of names came up and they couldn't remember when they last posted, or just didn't recognise the name at all. I don't think it's something that can be totally avoided, but this should help keep it to a minimum.
- The progression last time went: 128 (16 groups of 8, top 3 advance) -> 48 (6 groups of 8, top 2 advance) -> 16 (8 1-on-1 knockouts) and then went into further knockouts from there. I thought it was a well designed format and handled the large amount of contestants as well as realistically possible. However, because there were a lot of contestants, it did inevitably take quite a while. I'd like to have only 1 group stage and go straight to knockouts, maybe starting from 32 depending on numbers. Also, we went through the knockouts at the rate of 2 one-on-ones per day, I'd probably go for 4 per day instead (with semi-finals and the final being given their own day(s))