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Running events for two days at Biggie III

I will preface this by saying that evidently no one cares about PM, and it will almost certainly be ending on Saturday. This post is mainly concerning SSBM (and to a small extent, RoA) because this keeps popping up, and hopefully I can explain my stance thoroughly and without any confusion. Currently: SSBM has 27 entrants. In 27 entrants, the top seeds need to play two matches to get to winners side top 8, and in the event a bottom seed loses round 1 and makes top 8, they would need to play five matches. The post will discuss a few aspects of whether it's viable to have SSBM top 8/4 on Sunday. Players With top 8 on Sunday, people play 2-5 matches tops and then, depending on if they entered other games, either just wait or play games in other tournaments. Is this really good for the players? Considering out of town players will likely either not play or go very far in other games, it seems like a waste of their resources to me. Comparatively, even if they had a one day tournament