Understanding Tournament Bracket Seeding & Matchups

Question
We have 11 teams going into playoffs this year.  I know what the brackets should look like but am not sure how they determine who plays who.  Right now they have the top three teams getting a by-game.  Then they are telling me they go as follows...6 plays 11, 7 plays 10, 8 plays 9 and 4 plays 5.  This makes no sense to me but I do not want to argue if this is standard set-up for a tournament.  It seems to me it should be as follows...4 plays 11, 5 plays 10, 6 plays 9 and 7 plays 8.  What is the ASA or expert call on this subject?  Thank you!

Answer
Hi Kim,

I'm sorry you're asking the wrong guy.  I'm just a "stupid umpire"  and tournament UIC and we never, ever, never get involved in the brackets.

The Tournament Director is responsible for the brackets.

It does seem that 4 should play 11, 5-10 etc. but I am not an expert on this.

Write Larry A on this forum he might have a lot more knowledge on this than I do.

Mark