The difficulty with the brackets metaphor is that advancing is losing and losing is losing.
It might be instructive to fill in the brackets “after” the action has taken place. That way we can see the progression of THE PLAN in action?
Using the current understanding (which I’m not in total agreement with, but, let’s play along) 12 derps will be Pepe’d soon.
That is either Round 1 or the first “games” of Round 1, leaving 12 more to finish the round leaving 12 EMPTY slots to be filled in later.
Let’s say 12 comprises the lot of Round 1 (which is a bracket “column” of 24 places. So, Round 2 will comprise of SIX derps (who will automatically fill into the bracket for round 1. Round two will consist of 12 bracket slots, six to be filled in later.
And so on. The bracket will have an oxymoronic backward progression of
24 <- 12 <- 6 <- 3 <- 2 <- 1
So, I say, lets just leave a metaphor as a metaphor because this is too much like work....and math. I’m sure baggie’s in both “UNGH!” and “facepalm mode” by now.
Ain’t nobody gotz time fo dat!
From all the clues Q is sending, I’m firmly believing that Ovomit will be the first one that is (finally) held up to public scrutiny. That’s why the re-cycling of all his (terrible) slogans.