Well basicly it doesn't matter whether the levels are old or new, because either way alot of people will just learn them by heart. I remember playing 1 level the whole week before a certain war was played durign the j2wc2. Not fun
I would urge, however, that we make a compromise between the old and new levels. Lets not forget, alot of great old levels were left out so far. Crimson Diamond, DW to name just 2. Marsh was one of the levels during the 1st season, but was left unplayed.
So what I suggest, is definetly at least 2 new levels, or maybe 3, for which a competition would be held, and the levels should be out in early november not late december. So we should get a move on. The rest of the levels should just be the legendary ones. It would also be nice to maybe go to the original system that each team picks a level. But each team could pick that level only once per the whole tourney, and maybe each team should be forced to pick a diff one(maybe). That would of course change in the semis and the finals, where I kinda go with R3ps idea of BBlair for the finals.

But hey... thats just me (despite being biased on some points, I definetly think there are some good points worthwile discussin in my post)

EDIT: Some people might disagree with me when I say that the levels have to be out soon enough, by saying, they should get out as late as possible, so we could see who is the best at improvisation. Well unfortuanetly whilst I would like to see improvisation to be one of the key factors of the tournament, I thoroughly believe, that the levels have to be played by the players themselves before the tournament itself in order to assure their quality. I doubt we want to play in levels filled with bugs, or with levels who might actually get in the map pool, but later on prove they don't deserve to even be there. Cuz on the end it doesnt matter whethere the levels are new or old, it matters what their quality is. Although we don't want a map pool filled with old levels, we have to face it, that the levels which withstood the test of time for so long can't be all that bad(like classic literature for example). I shall now shut up.