You are one of 2k competitors in a single elimination tournament. The published rankings place you rth, and rank 1 is the strongest. In any match the higher ranked player always wins, so the player with the smaller rank number advances.
The bracket is the only source of uncertainty. Every way of assigning the 2k competitors to the bracket slots is equally likely. Determine your expected number of wins, the average of your win count over all bracket orderings.