It seems as though double elimination is producing some great fighting in the final rounds. In fact, I think it's produced more even matches throughout the tournament and thus, a litte more fun for everyone involved.
We've had our second participant climb out of the lower brackets this week, this time advancing to the finals. Congrats to JOACH1M on winning two rounds to advance and congrats to Sunsfan for making the finals.
I've had fun watching the films from these later rounds and just finished watching the JOACH1M/Latrobe duels. These fights bring up a question for the community which I'll take under advisment for any future tournaments. I noticed JOACH1M used WEP pretty extensively on his way to the fights giving him about a 10 mph speed advantage at the merge in most of the duels (there were exceptions). While there's no rule against this and won't be for the final matchup in this tournament my question is, should this be allowed? It would be difficult to enforce until the quarterfinals where films are required but not immpossible as players could review their own films and file a dispute if they wanted to. I know what my thoughts are but am curious what others think.
I was wondering about a few things and took a look back. Here's a list of former tournament winners and runners-up:
Tournament 10: JOACH1M/Sonic23
Tournament 9: JOACH1M/TC
Tournament 8: JOACH1M/DrSpek
Tournament 7: Bruv119/Krupnski
Tournament 6: Krupnski/Technical DQ
Tournament 5: batfinkv/dedalos
Tournament4: TonyJoey/Grizz
Tournament 3: JB11/cactus
Tournament 2: JB11/Grizz
Tournament 1: moot/batfinkv
JOACH1M seems to be on a roll. I just hadn't realized how impressive it's been. Can he make it an unprecidented fourth consecutive championship or will Sunsfan break his streak? We'll soon find out.
Here's the final match of the tournament. You have until next Sunday to get this in. Since both of you have recorded a loss there are no contingency rounds; it's simply four wins for glory. Good luck to both of you and may the best pilot win.