Can you give me any evidence? I can't just take your word for it.
Besides, this event is going to be over pretty soon. Five people will be left, at most, after this round... Once I get feedback from everyone on how to improve this, I'll start making another one.
I'm thinking:
Double elimination - One loss = death seems to be a little too fast.
Change decks during a match - This will help emphasize deck building, and will lower the occurrence of people choosing a deck that their opponent counters perfectly. Maybe we could make it so that if you lose with a deck in your match, you can't use that deck again during that match. That would force players to make at least two decks for each match. I'd need feedback about this.
Improved match-making - I want there to be no byes. This is hard to do if there is an odd number of teams.
Requiring players to PM their opponents and saving these messages in their outbox. That way I'm not spammed with BCC's, and if people aren't able to play a match, I'll be able to see what went on.
Possible other things too.