I personally perfer the old tournament format for these reasons. -have to wait too long for an opponent when there are many there with close rating, and normaly you get someone who is not as close as some others are. -when you get assigned a player, i think it should be the person with slosest rating in tournament and normal rating. I think you could maybe only have half of the tournaments in this new format, so then for the people who dont like it can play how they perfer it (which is most people). Everyone post your thoughts about this new format here :)