We have 10 people participating.
The scale would look like this:
(Winner)
_________|________
| ____|____
___|__ ___|__ |
_|__ _|_ _|_ _|_ _|_
| | | | | | | | | |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
If we had 9 it would look like this:
(Winner)
________|________
____|____ |
| ___|___ _|__
_|_ _|_ _|_ _|_ |
| | | | | | | | |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
If we had only 8 people, we would be just fine, but we would need 2 people to drop out, and I don't want anybody quitting.
Here is what it would look like:
(Winner)
______|______
__|__ ___|__
_|_ _|_ _|_ _|_
| | | | | | | |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8