Oh my goodness, what an exciting day you have all had! I do regret that my rather bizarre schedule kept me from participating
There were some amazing upsets, and probably an about equal number of victories that I'm quite pleased about.
Since we're working this out as we go ... how's about for future rounds limiting people to 10 nominees (As long as the interest holds out and we'd fill the field that way)?
I think the spontaneous vote when the matchup is annouced is a good way to go in the early rounds. But, to catch people who (ahem, like me) login late at night ... what about the person who makes the pick annouces the next matchup? We did that a couple of times on the Cereal Field of 64, and it seemed to work all right. That method doesn't rely on UT's constant attention to the process, and also enforces the "no two in a row" rule.
Oh, and radar needs to review the rules, such as they are.