Level 9 HC duel mini-tournaments?

So lately I just got this idea of arranging a group where we play characters together till level 9, then fight with them till death in a small tournament. Also, we only use the items we have found during the leveling, no twinking from other sources allowed.

For example, if there were 8 players, each level 9, it would go like this (when the underlined bold player is the winner):

First match:

Player 1 vs. Player 2

Player 3 vs. Player 4

Player 5 vs. Player 6

Player 7 vs. Player 8

Second match:

Player 1 vs. Player 3

Player 5 vs. Player 7

Final match:

Player 1 vs Player. 5

So in this case, Player 1 would be the winner, and the reward for him would be.. well.. respect or something.



The problems that come along with this are though, that everyone would probably make a paladin or some other melee char that can make relatively high damage at the beginning already though, so a level 9 paladin with smite, sacrifice and holy fire could easily beat a level 9 bone necro, who had only teeth, bone armor and weaken, or at least that's what I think.

Also, having a 8 player group arranged from in the same timezone with everyone having free time, can be difficult to do.

This is still just an idea of mine, and opinions from other players are needed for this. Maybe this could even happen at some point.

Oh, and tell me if there are already groups who do this.

Another way would be leveling the chars to level 18-24, but that would require a bit more time, but the balance between different classes would be better.|||i would go for this, the only prob with raising the lv cap to 18 would mean that (me at least) would be sorely tempted to make a charger which would be slightly unfair, considering how good chargers can be as duelers very early on.