Allowing tied competitors to both make it to the next round is only acceptable if the same number of users is also selected in the other groups; a contest in which some members are twice as likely to progress as others seems heavily flawed to me in terms of statistics. As much as I know it would have involved an additional round, I fail to understand why you guys did not keep two members per group, eight in total, allowing you to proceed to eighth and quarter-finals and therefore to come up with a nice ranking.