I am directing an 8-round NAST this weekend (which Steve Pellinen is allowing under the new rules for this NAST series).  This requires a shift away from using the built in NAST pairings (I think) because of the additional rounds.  I will likely have 14 attendees, so the way I have addressed it is to create two teams of 7, and pair a team round robin, followed by one round of KOTH.   By putting players 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 into team A, and the rest into team B, I accomplish a snake round robin, which seems to work very nicely in my dry runs.  Here are my questions:

1.  Is this a good way to handle the pairings, or is there a superior method?

2.  The dryrun gave error messages that scores were missing to allow the pairing of round 8 in rounds 2 through 6.  I didn’t know why it was looking to pair that round so early, but it seemed to work fine otherwise (and paired round 8 just fine once round 7 had scores), and when I stepped through a round-by-round dry run, there were no glitches.  Is there any cause for concern arising from that error message?

Thanks,
Dallas Johnson