This similar to chess tournament knockouts. People need to fight others at mis-matched powers. It makes little sense to have a 100 mil player be in the quarter finals just because he/ she beat 5 other 80-100 mil players. But similar to ultimate arena, there could be a separate bracket for the top 10 or so. I saw this idea elsewhere in the forum. The only other browser game I played in the past had 3 different CW brackets, basically based on their arena position by the end of the week. Tynon may want to consider this. Lower brackets still get prizes, but lower ones.
Griffin S12