The same could happen at the end of the stage in groups C, E, G, H, and J. Then we'll all patiently wait a month to see how the round-robin tournament ends there, and then toss coins to decide? By the way, about the favorites. If a system similar to the one proposed had been tested back then, it's very likely that the overall tournament result would have been different. Two of you, Rom, from your group won prizes. And yet another group played extra matches. If we had created a cross-bracket scheme back then, it's quite possible that you would have ended up in the upper bracket, and Stinger wouldn't have been eliminated in the group stage. My inner voice (mathematically, I don't have the data, I'm relying on the method of closely examining the list of season reports) tells me that if the players knew their ranking, they wouldn't have written anything at all, so as not to guess blindly. But spring isn't over yet. On the other hand, of course, we're not going to stop anyone from playing. If you want, play. We'll decide whether to count the results or not when we summarize the group results. Although, I would suggest waiting a bit, so that there are no complaints later.