[quote name='Rocko']If you had an even number of competitors, why couldn't everyone have a first round match?[/quote]Because unless it's a factor of 2, then you wouldn't have an even number of competitors the next round.
I.e. we have 22, so if we just matched everyone up, the next round there would be 11 people. And if you set up a bye that round, then the 11 would turn into 6. And then the 6 would turn into 3... and then you have to somehow go from 3 to 1. To have no byes, you have to have 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.
[quote name='CouRageouS']Why do I get a Bye Week? Drug testing?[/quote]Yeah, your Luigi failed... hopefully by round 2, it'll be out of his system.
Basically the top 10 people alphabetically got byes since they were the top 10 seeds.