Universal Chess Championship- Round of 48 (Attempt 2) (Updated)

Hello Chess.com, I am DJ_Bradlezzz and I have a project I have been working on and I need your help. I have a made a tourament consiting of 48 of the best chess players in history and put them in a tourament bracket, for which, chess.com will decide who is the Universal Chess Champion! Some rules first:

-All players are teleported from the exact time they were at their peak and transported to Jan 15, 2019 at 3:00 PM mountain standard time. 

-The players will not age or decline mentally during their time in the present.

-All players have one year to do with whatever they wish, chess related or not. 

-All players have a budget of $150,000 USD and get one second of their choice, they are not allowed to hire any more seconds then that. 

-The 16 FIDE World Champions get a bye in round 1 

-The tourament is single elimation and has 24 classical games in each match.

-If tied 12-12, 4 rapid games will be played, if still tied, then 4 blitz will be played, id still tied, then 2 blitz, if still tied, then armageddeon. 

- All 24 games will be played. 

- The tourament begins on Jan 15, 2020 at 3:00 PM Mountain standard time. 

That's it! Voting concludes in one week for round one on Jan 22, 2019 at 7:00 PM Mountain Standard Time.

Here's the link: https://goo.gl/forms/jqcRnHpbAfVqGFQq2

The seeds:

(Please don't argue over who should have been in and who shouldn't have, if you have query n how I selected the seeds and players, contact me.) (All offical champs and challengers are in the poll)

Modern Era (1990-Present)

1. Magnus Carlsen (2)
2. Vladimir Kramnik (5)
3. Viswanathan Anand (9)
4. Veselin Topalov (21)
5. Fabiano Caruana (24)
6. Boris Gelfand (28)
7. Sergey Karjakin (32)
8. Vassily Ivanchuk (33)
9. Michael Adams (34)
10. Gata Kamsky (36)
11. Hikaru Nakamura (37)
12. Levon Aronian (40)
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (41)
14. Peter Leko (42)
15. Peter Svider (45)
16. Ding Liren (46)

Competition Era (1950-1989)

1. Garry Kasparov (1)
2. Anatoly Karpov (3)
3. Bobby Fischer (4)
4. Mikhail Tal (7)
5. Mikhail Botnovik (8)
6. Boris Spassky (11)
7. Tigran Petrosian (12)
8. Vasily Smyslov (13)
9. Viktor Korchnoi (18)
10. David Borenstein (19)
11. Paul Keres (20)
12. Eflm Geller (25)
13. Nigel Short (29)
14. Bent Larsen (30)
15. Artur Yusupov (43)
16. Yasser Seirawan (48)

Classical Era (1886-1950)

1. Jose Capablanca (6)
2. Emanuel Lasker (10)
3. Alexander Alekhine (15)
4. Max Euwe (16)
5. Mikhail Chigorin (26)

6. Johannes Zukertort (31)
7. Frank Marshall (35)
8. Elfm Bogoliubov (44)

Romantic Era (Pre-1886)

1. William Steinitz (14)
2. Paul Morphy (17)
3. Howard Staunton (22)
4. Adolf Anderssen (23)
5. Bernhard Horwitz (27)
6. Pierre Saint-Amant (38)
7. Louis de La Bourdonnais (39)
8. Alexander McDonnell (47)

I like the idea. Sounds cool.

You said "All 24 games will be played. " Why would all 24 games be played, especially if someone already won a match by then?

The main reason is so that when later in the tourament, mental decine from playing almost 100 games will really set in, so I made it "fairer" for all the player by making them play the same amount of games.