I think this same kind of thinking is why the current (Blitz 19x19) ASTs are probably fairly inhospitable to DDK and TPK players at the moment, with slide pairing pitting people 17-20 ranks apart in an even game.
I’d be up for an overhaul of the tournament system, or if not a replacement something else side by side.
In absence of that, sure may as well have a third place playoff.
What do you do in tournaments which are either really short, or for example where most of the games are timeouts anyway?
Here’s a short one, one of the three games was a timeout so presumably you just give the third place to the person who actually played their game rather than the other semi-finalist that timed out?
Oh that was already mentioned to have happened in the current system, the third place going to a person who timed out Tournaments should show winners
What if both semi-finalists timeout? It seems silly to set up a game and have whoevers the first player timeout and become third 