Tour Update:
Several players have come and gone since the start of the tournament group stage. In the meantime, over 200 FT5's have been completed and the end of the group stage is now approaching.
Note to be a bore on everyone but some reminders:
1. Keep your inbox's clean (!) KFClol, Derpate, Obstgarten & X_enyCe it has proven quite difficult for me to contact you ~ which means your opponents will have had difficulties as well. Please try to robustly complete duels from this point onwards.
2. For those of you with 5 or less duels completed ( Derpate, Viperclaw, X_EnyCe and Harabec ) please note that regardless of your points, if you have not completed 10 duels by the end of the group stage, your qualification is the KO stage is not guaranteed. I would rather have 16 committed players (including players with lower points then you) then allowing players with minimal duels completed, to advance to the KO stage.
3. At the present time I am swaying towards taking every users best 10 results in the group phase to decide the last 16 placement positions (from 1 - 16). I MAY grant and/or use TKO points at the end of the group phase where players have not completed at least 10 duels, but (a) I might not, (b) I would sooner use direct points from completed duels and (c) if I do decide to award points via TKO wins (i.e. from players who appear to be dodging), players should not expect to get maximum points from a TKO (i'll probably only grant 8 points for a TKO). At this moment in time I have awarded only 1 TKO win, and that's for Hore_to_the_t vs Addesmile (Trapper vs Blizz in group 1). On reflection I believe this to be a fair decision, which I have been considering now for some time.
4. To all participants: Please try your best not to respond to spam in the topic. Polite or funny banter is acceptable, provided all parties find it funny. Stay on topic and when in doubt, let your results do the talking for you. Please be patient and considerate to all of your opponents, and keep pming them and posting in the topic.
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The Group stage itself will end on the 02nd of December at which point the KO stage will begin. I would ask everyone to try to complete as many duels as possible between now and then.
If someone can do me a favour and (a) pm this to everyone over the next 24 hours and (b) post confirmation that everyone pm'd, great. otherwise i'll copy paste this when i have time over the next 2-3 days. im currently afk on a boat in the middle of the atlantic ocean with a crummy connection.
