The event ended at about 2:30 in the morning Toronto time and could have gone on quite a bit longer if Shane had tied the finals at 2 sets apiece. With a 4-person event, running that late really is unnecessary. I'll just attribute this to the imponderables in planning the first event of this type.
Kind of related to my first point, more is not necessarily better. Instead of best-of-5 sets to 75 points, perhaps best-of-3 sets to 100 points would be enough. Alternatively, did the round-robin portion during the first two days really accomplish much (it "seeded" the 4 players for the single-elimination finals)? Wouldn't a random-draw double-elimination format accomplish about the same thing? That would have produced a total of 6 matches instead of the 9 that were played.
Have the matches been been made available for viewing yet?
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