FATOC '12 Suggestion
I type it while it's still fresh in my head ;>
Maybe instead of 5 thematic rounds, we should do a classic tournament tree? Each week goes one level of tree. If we keep getting more and more contestants (I think and hope we will) it will be like n (n = contestants number) vids to watch (instead of 5 * n) and possibility to only one person from each pair. For example for 42 ppl there would be 21 battles with 42 vids total (in ceil(lg n) rounds, 6 in this case). Now we have (not counting dropouts) 5 * 42 = 210 vids.
With tournament like this we should have approx. half of current vids to make and it would be more difficult the higher you are - since you'll have to pull something new or everyone will see that you have nothing more to show.
Maybe instead of 5 thematic rounds, we should do a classic tournament tree? Each week goes one level of tree. If we keep getting more and more contestants (I think and hope we will) it will be like n (n = contestants number) vids to watch (instead of 5 * n) and possibility to only one person from each pair. For example for 42 ppl there would be 21 battles with 42 vids total (in ceil(lg n) rounds, 6 in this case). Now we have (not counting dropouts) 5 * 42 = 210 vids.
With tournament like this we should have approx. half of current vids to make and it would be more difficult the higher you are - since you'll have to pull something new or everyone will see that you have nothing more to show.