Bruce,
I really liked the idea of a Miniature football National Championship, where local/regional tournaments are used as a means to determine a tournament bracket for the national championship. I think Beenut and Ray F were really onto something. The idea is simple, and even better yet seems manageable. (See post below for some details on the ideas)...
http://miniaturefootball.com/forum/s...t=18444&page=3
An example of how this could work is the MFCA national championship bracket could be made up from winners (and possibly some runners up??) of local/regional tournaments like....Buzzfest, Texas Shootout, Miggle, Beltsville, LA Open run, Bama Blast, local league winners (?), etc, etc.
Obviously, we would need to have some kind of qualifications to make a local/regional tournament eligable for automatic entry into the national championship tournament. Coaches could attend as many tournaments as they want, increasing their odds of making the big dance and that would be great for the hobby to promote these events. Then we could have online voting for rankings (kind of like an AP poll in college football) which would be for seeding, wild card entries, and just for some overall excitement.
I think this would be a lot of fun and it would be relatively low maintanance, and it would create a great BUZZ in the hobby! I'm all in.
Joe