what if you modeled tournaments after a heap instead of a binary tree
this is how group dynamics seem to work. The alpha and the omega are alway legible compared to the illegible middle. Lose one of them, and the successor emerges auto-magically. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/10/14/the-gervais-principle-iv-wonderful-human-beings/#more-2071:~:text=So%20the%20status%20of%20anyone%20who,a%20State%2C%20but%20never%20mind%20that …).
