Agreed; follow the fight from E’s perspective, then he can hear about (or we can be shown) highlights of other parts of the battle afterwards.

Shoot first, then ask questions. Solid plan!

That scoring system really bothers me. A series of matches against evenly ranked foes, where each match is a coin flip to see who wins, would result in an average of -3 points lost every match(+2 for winner -5 for loser). Furthermore, by treating team strength as dependent on total tiers, you incentivize smaller elite teams. A group of just two tier 6 participants would slaughter everyone, despite a strength rating of 12 (compared to an average of 16 for a full team of eight tier 2s). My suggestion would be an open Swiss style tournament: each team gets matched with other teams with similar overall win-loss records every time they queue up. After enough matches have been played (and the organizer should set a minimum number per day), the teams should gradually separate out into a wide spread of records, at which you pull out the top 32 or 64 and run a double-elimination tournament to find your winner and second place.