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Structure looks good to me. With reasonable players this tournament will last nearly four hours. With typical home game players I could see a three hour finish. If 3.5hrs is really important just make the blinds go up every 10 minutes in the third hour.

re: breaking tables, I think you should keep the "optimum number at a table" the same. i.e. if you start with two tables of five, the final table should be five. If you start with a table of six and a table of five make the final table six. Just opinion based on my experience.

Get some tournament management software (I use tournament manager, others prefer tournament director) and let it assign the seats. Someone invariably bitches at me when they move and I love being able to say, "Blame the computer."