Firstly I want to say that I sincerely love the Ranked Tournament. I'm on PS4, so I just got access to it today and I've played more today than in the last month.
After playing 4 or 5 tournaments I've noticed that first place in the Qualifying Pool is almost always tied with second. I still haven't been able to figure out how it breaks ties, but I think that's a moot point.
My suggestion is to have every round won award the player 1 point.
This would help in two different ways:
1) It would widen the practical score possibilities (from the set of, practically, {3, 6, 9}, to {1-9}), which by itself would decrease the probability of ties for any of the placings.
2) It would better reward skilled play, as well as better find the most skilled person from the pool to move on to the tournament proper. In the current system, if someone loses their 3 matches 3-2. they get the exact same scoring as someone who could have literally sat down the controller during the duels themselves. In the new system if someone loses 3-2 they will still have a much better score than the person who just sat down their controller.
I would love to get a response from you guys, Ubisoft. I've fallen in love with For Honor again, and I think that this change could honestly make ranked tournaments really great.
Thanks.