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I have said it before and will say it again.

Only allowing three teams from each District to advance to the playoffs and seeding the Semi-States is the quickest way to increase competition and eliminate blowouts.

Seeding the entire State does not work from a geographic standpoint, but seeding the Semi-States would achieve most of what you want and getting rid of the 1 vs. 4 game gets rid of numerous blowout games.

I would agree. I didn't like just one team advancing (back in the 70's) and your season often was literally over by the third game of the season.(As an example, the Belfry/Russell game was often early, and Johnson Central didn't factor in much at that time).

Two teams advancing gave teams chances to recover their seasons from scenarios like above. But I didn't (and still don't care for) 4 district teams advancing for the obvious reasons of blowouts and potential injuries. Sure, it's nice for the kids to make the playoffs, if for only the pride of saying they played in them. I get that. But your scenario makes the most sense. But as we often experience, logic doesn't always get consideration.