You guys are forgetting a big factor, time.

If each round is 20 minutes (more or less), it is going to take ~3 hours for the first 8 rounds.
But if we had to put all the rounds together, it would take about 6 hours.

How about we do the first 8 this week, and the second 8 next week? (all in 2 days) I'm just doing that so Arabs and European players get a chance to play at a better time. (<1AM)