Suggestion: Why don't we stop the later-round matches and focus on this round? I know Firestorm wants the tournament run as fast as good competition will allow, but we already have one semifinalist while there are second-round matches (like mine) still yet to be determined.
I'd agree with you, if it weren't for the fact that if we don't get them done now, when will we get them done? In my own opinion, when the opportunity arises, we should do the battles, that way we aren't sitting around forever and then later finding out the two people who have been waiting to do a fight can no longer do it for a while due to scheduling.
Think of it like this. Let's say Brade and MagnetMan just did their fight. MagnetMan won. Now we're ready to fight, be we instead decide to wait for the other side of the bracket. Later, when the other side is caught up, it turns out I have to go on vacation for a week and will not have proper internet to challenge MagnetMan, when instead we could have done the fight sooner.
In the end, everyone is going to have to wait the same amount of time regardless of whether we do fights sooner or later, but we have a better chance of keeping this tournament chugging along if the fights are done as soon as possible.