I appreciate the effort, but I just don't like the idea of two players who say ended up tied for 5th get different amount of pts just because in one part of the bracket there were more upsets. Why should one of those two players get penalized because some other players lost earlier. What can they possibly do about that? Should they punch in the face that seeded guy in their side of the bracket for losing early? Should that seeded player that got upset early on in the tourney feel bad not only because they lost their own match but also because they denied the chance of extra pts for one of those two players tied for 5th?
Furthermore... Say playerA is seed #1 and playerB is seed #2. Now, they're playing in a tourney and they're beating everyone on their way. They meet in winners finals & grand finals and playerA wins both times and takes the tourney. However, since in playerA's side of the tourney a bunch of upsets happened, but in playerB's no upsets happened, playerB ends up with more pts even though he finished behind playerA and got beaten twice in the same tourney by playerA. How would that make playerA feel?
Furthermore... Say a playerX is a new face on the scene and loses in a GF of a huge tourney, his first tourney ever. Now, after this tournament this player is considered "big thing" and constantly does well and wins over him are worthy of bonus pts so everyone that beats him in future tournies gets bonus pts, but that "unlucky guy" that beat him first got none even though this player turned out a monster. Will that "unlucky guy" feel robbed?
Another thing to consider, and this was evident during NFGR (KTPs are the witness)-> we know how much MK players LOVE checking out their ranking and discuss it. So... Another HYPOTHETICAL situation: REO and PL are winning all the tournies throughout the year and they're the only two with a chance to finish the year ranked as #1. Now, in this final tourney which will decide the final ranking, one of REO's teammates who's on PL's side of the bracket and who's also seeded, decides to lose on purpose early on just to deny PL a chance to score those bonus pts. Now, REO beats PL in winner's final, but PL beats REO in GF so they nullify their own bonus pts, but REO finishes ahead in the year-end ranking (even though PL won the tourney!) 'cause of his teammate losing on purpose in PL side of the bracket. I want to say I just used REO & PL to demonstrate the problem, I am not saying any of their teammates would do something like this. I just want to point-out possible problems with the system.
I repeat, I appreciate the effort, but I just don't like the pts system. Imo, tennis system is best for MK, the bigger the tourney the more pts you get, but whoever loses in QF gets the same amount of pts regardless of who they beat on the way to QFs. Afterall, it's not their fault other seeded players performed bad (maybe they came drunk to the tourney, or got disqualified so why should any of these quarterfinalists be penalised for bad behavior of other people).