I agree with the no buffs. My first battle tonight is against a player who is 250 million power higher then me. He has done a lot of spending and playing to get his toon to that level. So if tynon were to give me a buff and I won how would that be fair??? I also like the brackets idea but it would have to be carefully crafted to make it fair and enjoyable for all. Just as an idea, I would make the brackets at 100 million per bracket. The lower end of the bracket might struggle but as their toons improved it could get quite interesting. And of course the upper end of the bracket would shortly be jumping up to the next higher bracket. So the repetition of the same player winning would be short lived.