[Hound05]

Shorten a round and whole playoff seeded by RPI

You beat me to it! 

I’ll go even further, keep it seeded by RPI geographically until the semis. That way you’re not having Paducah Tilghman traveling to to bell county the first round. And shorten it like you said as well. I’d be fine with 2 teams but I’d like 3. Sometimes the 2nd and 3rd place teams in a district are about even. 

Or

if they wouldn’t do that, and I wouldn’t like it as much, but instead of 8 regions, do it like the NCAA does. Make a north, central, east, west bracket. Regions 1/2 are seeded in the west. 3/4 seeded in the central. Etc. top 4 get to pick which bracket they want to play in. That way only one team would possibly have to travel a ways. (Not a big fan of this personally)

Or 

take the top 16 teams and they go to the playoffs. Regardless of what district region they are from. This year boyle and Lex both would be in it from the same district. And district 78 wouldn’t have any make it. This would almost guarantee the top 2 teams meet in the finals. Or start out with the top 8 teams. There’s about 99% chance no one under 8 in RPI will ever win a championship, unless they just loaded up on out of state teams. 

finally, keep it like it is with RPI. And the same model (ie districts 2 districts per region) but seed each region instead of cross bracketing. The. Region finals will be seeded geographically, and then semis it don’t matter where you’re from. i wouldn’t mind this, not wpuld Change outside of early matchups.