In normal tournament seeding the first ranked player will face the lowest rank player, 2nd rank the next to the lowest, etc. The players are distributed on the brackets so that the 1 and 2nd seed will not face each other until the finals. The rest of the players are placed on the brackets in similar fashion. This way the higher ranked players will not be eliminated (unless there is an upset) in the early rounds by facing another high ranked player.

This is a seeding chart for a tournament of 128 players. It is too small for our purposes, but it illustrates the concept pf seeding. http://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdf...teamseeded.pdf