A DM tournament?

[k0jak]

8+ groups of 4-6, player from each group with most frags at the end of the group stage = moves on to finals

top 2 is better to make it to semi's first

[Pyromace]

Depending on the number of entrants it could be a few groups of 8, top player automatically moves to finals, 2nd and 3rd place player move to another qualifying round. and then the top two from the qualifying round also move on to the final or something like that. If there were 4 initial groups this would mean a 6 person final which I think would be acceptable.

Or it could be done like they do BMX races. The initial groups play 3 matches. The winner gets 1 point, 2nd two points and so on. Then after the 3 matches the 4 players with the lowest score move on to the next round. In each subsequent round, only 1 match is played and the top 4 in each match move on until only the top 8 remain and they play to see who the winner is.

[GreEn`mArine]

Did I understand that correctly: You want to have 8 players on a map and the top scorers proceed?

Then I suggest to use extra small maps like aggressor. Should be more fun. Not.