Eh, I posted something similar to the suggestions part of the last LAN poll in another section.
Honestly, a lot of things could have been done differently in retrospect but it wouldn’t have made that much of a difference. If you want everyone to have fun, well if you have a 5 min time limit or 25 kills single elimination, well.. they only get 5 mins if they lose. Not much fun there. That’s why consoles either need to have a longer time for tournaments, a separate day, or heck, even free play.
Consoles and TVs are limited though. BYOC doesn’t work, because two or even 4 people may share a console. A couple buddies come over and they all play split screen in the room or at different times and what not. So there’s a limiting factor there. You can’t play split-screen or any sort of game between multiple people on 1 PC unless it’s turn-based. And BYOTV isn’t all that great either since TVs come in multiple dimensions and so on and so forth. And people would complain if they got stuck with like a 13″ TV whereas the guy beside him has a 26″ or even a 32″ Widescreen television. Plus it’s simply too hard or risky to move large televisions for fear of breaking the thing or being unable to put into transport.