I think it would be much more interesting if you did like a double elimination BO3 bracket, kinda like how CCGS worked. Clash Royale's in game tournaments are pretty lacking in my opinion, and not too many people would like to sit playing for 1 hours straight. I'd probably play some sort of bracket, but I don't want to play a full 1 hours (might just be my opinion though). A problem does arise with a bracket though, as people have to agree to a time to fight, but having ran a clan-wide bracket in the past in an international clan, it's not too hard. If you can't find enough participants, a round robin might also be interesting and would work with any (low-ish) number of participants.
Remember the first discussion thread I created some time ago? At that time the first idea I had in my mind was to organize a
knock-out clash royale tournament. Something like the table below.
But I changed the idea to the current tournament system because I thought members will not appreciate for two main reasons.
1. Participants will not get a second chance if they lose in the battle - they are simply knocked out!
2. The distribution of prize was limited to 4 winners only in the knockout tournament - Champion, Runner-up, and the 2 semi-finalist eliminators.
The main reason to do the current tournament version is that,
1. It has the option to distribute prize to 10 participants. Participants will get more chance to be a winner.
2. Participants will get many chances in one hour battle time to fight back to gain a position from 1-10 to win a prize.
The only downside the current tournament version has the time and I'm aware of it.
The knockout version will have the same issue "TIME", but there will be a plus point though, we can follow the participants because they will join a clan.
If the community likes the knockout version then I don't have any problem to organize that.
Regarding the time issue, I will announce a time when all participants must come online to participate in the 1vs1 battle. So those who will be able to come online at that time will only join the tournament.
Clash Royale tournament has a 2hrs prep time and 1hr battle time. This goes for the tournament I announced.
But the knockout version will not have anything like it. If the two participants are online then they can start the battle without any delay and we all can watch live.
In the tournament joining thread (for the current version), I can place a countdown timer so that the participants can know when the battle will start and can decide if they can come online or not at that time. If their answer is yes then they can register for the tournament.