Quick survey on curly brace positioning

I absolutely don't want to get into a debate over whether it is better to put curly braces on their own line or not, but I do have a question on indentation I'd like to throw at the masses (ok - all 7 of you).

Generally, the curly brace debate boils down to these two examples:

if (var < max) {
DoSomething();
}

vs.

if (var < max)

{
DoSomething();
}

I recently came across a body of code that uses a variation on the second method – but to me is far less readable. Am I missing something? Does anyone else favor this format?

if (var < max)

{
DoSomething();
}