Ok I finally got around to reading this.

Long and short of it...MLG and I read it.

We mumbled some words. Then we grumbled some words. And then we realized. "yeah...that kinda doesn't make sense." So we halfway agree with you there Chaos.

Halfway. The other one, the N/2, naa. Because your example is flawed.

#1) If it was to be treated as such, then that means 3 of the battles didn't even get started. Why would the Ref get credit for that?

#2) Disregarding #1 completely, if we follow your first plan, then that means they're getting points for more than one battle, Yes numerically they divvy up to the same amount of points but its still one battle, truncated to the benefit of everyone. The matches are stated as one type and we can't break that-because that's an extra benefit that makes things lopsided.

But I guess we can write that up :O Reffing Rules and Regular Rules need a huge makeover anyway. Lotta little instances aren't covered.