People are playing for the State Championship-many players have fought hard all year long in order to earn their spot at the tourney. For some players, this might be the first time they have qualified, maybe it will be their only shot. For many seasoned players, they can easily adapt, and chances are they are the higher seeds anyway, so they will get the better game picks if there are limited games. It seems like a potential punishment for qualifying lower.

If TDs are going to implement rules where the highest seed gets to pick from the choice games and so on until the lower seeds get the scraps, then that rule should have been established at the beginning of the year, not on the big day in an effort just to get it over with.

Yes it is a long day, but it only happens once a year.

Yes that method is correct. I have no issue with the higher seed picking the very first game or position.

I was talking about a concept that some TDs might want to use to keep the day from being too long.

Specifically, my comment was about the top set (for example 1 and 16 in round one) picking their game (say AC/DC) and sets (2,15) etc. not being able to wait for that game and being forced to make another choice because the TD wants to make sure the tourney moves quickly.

Granted it is best of 7 and sets (2,15) etc. could play AC/DC at some other point, but maybe that player wants to play that specific game first to get a psychological advantage or calm his nerves by playing something familiar etc. To be denied access to a game at the State Championship level because they didn't qualify higher and the TD wants to speed things up is kind of cheesy IMO. If that method of choosing (denying) was going to be a rule it should be known well in advance.

That was the point. Hopefully a little clearer

Understood, and it sounds reasonable...in theory. When you play in the SCS and there are exactly 7 games to choose from, order of game play can be quite significant