MW (1) East Mont vs Starmount (8) W
MW (2) Mount Airy vs Avery Co (7) W
MW (3) West Mont vs Pine Lake Prep (6) W
MW (4) East Surry vs Cherryville (5) W
W (1) Murphy vs Whiteville (8) MW
W (2) East Wilkes vs Walkertown (7) MW
W (3) Bessemer City vs North Stanly (6) MW
W (4) Swain Co vs North Moore (5) MW
I'm not entirely sure that's how the new format will work. I would like it to be how footballstar17 laid it out in his projections, because that would mean less area matchups in the early going, but if I read the news release earlier this year from the NCHSAA correctly, I think that the format is going to be as bareman has it
Here is a template from NCHSAA, so I think it will be like I posted earlier. I know someone else also posted the format (like I posted) earlier this year. I think the NCHSAA also wanted to git away from area match ups happening.
https://www.nchsaa.org/sites/default/files/attachments/Bracket_Template.pdf
Here is the seeding section from NCHSAA:
Seeding:
(a) Once the qualifying teams are determined, they will be divided into four (4) groups, (i.e. East, Mideast, Midwest, West) based upon the longitude of each school.
(b) Seed all first place, regular season conference champions by 10-game winning percentage (10-game, football; All games, Tennis, Wrestling & Lacrosse) followed by;
(c) Conference tournament champions by 22-game winning percentage (10-game, football; All games, Tennis, Wrestling & Lacrosse), followed by;
(d) All other qualifying teams by 22-game winning percentage (10-game, football; All games, Tennis, Wrestling & Lacrosse)
(1) All ties for seeding in (a), (b) or (c) will be broken by:
(i) All Head-to-Head Competition Note: The non-conference game(s) that are dropped for seeding purposes may still be used in breaking a tie. Note: All teams involved in the tie must have played each other.
(ii) 24-game record (11-game, Football; All games, Tennis, Wrestling and Lacrosse) (iii) MaxPreps Ranking (last available ranking at the time of the seeding)
(iv) Draw
So if I understand correctly, they get the qualifying teams. Split them between A and AA. Then split them by region (west, midwest, mideast, east) and then finally rank them between 1-8 for each region. Then it will be just like this:
1 MW vs 8W
4W vs MW5
2W vs MW7
3MW vs W6
1W vs MW8
4MW vs W5
2MW vs W7
3W vs MW6