It seems we had a bit of a shakey first week. Hopefully things will get better this week.
First of all, we've had a few in-game name changes. They are:
In-Game - Was - BBs
DBCooper - uptown - uptown
snuggie - caldera - caldera
Spektor - viper10 - ACE
We had seven duels that did not take place.
ForkTail,
Jrjolly and
Strip all forfeit their duels due to various reasons. This allowed
Agent360,
akELFY, and
SkyRock to advance.
Kazan,
RufLeak,
Sandwich and
texastc posted in this thread, making an obvious attempt to set-up their duels while their opponents (
Cobra516,
Mike254,
Steve and
zig50) did not, so they advance according to the rules (refer to the first post on page one of this thread).
Relative to unfought duels, this was the worst week in the short history of this event. At least we didn't have to resort to a random draw (which would have been a first) to resolve a duel.
I allowed
jerkins and
Sunbatt to duel a week early for this round as Sunbatt was going to be out of town part of this week. In a case such as this it's not only my decision but also that of the opposing player as I want everyone to have the time they need and not to feel any pressure to rush to get something in. jerkins graciously accepted in this case.
Once this happened I was asked by another if I would let them duel early. While I'm willing to work with special circumstances I don't want to keep assigning planes and updating the bracket every day. Add to that the additional confusion when I'm already trying to track who didn't duel, who posted trying to arrange their duels, who didn't post, who's not posting results correctly, who didn't read the rules so I have to reiterate them, etc., etc., etc...
Please limit your requests to "special" circumstances.
The following players have byes this week. Everyone else fights:
batfinkv
Bosco
DadRabit
DrBone
JunkyII
Qrsu
Spektor
texstc
Tongs
Will all of that said,
Congratulations to those who advanced to the next round. We (I say that figuratively since I'm once again eliminated in round 1) are once more fighting two rounds simultaneously (Elimination rounds 2 and 3). Here's the updated bracket and good luck to all in the next round:
