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Originally posted by DrkSandman
Originally posted by ericelroybarman

What I dont understand is how come all of these applications had to be kept so secret. Seems like a list of teams that had entered correctly could of been updated daily or every other day on tourney homepage. Instead of stashed away for some tourney mod to figure out right b4 tourney.

It's not really a "secret." I don't like to release the bracket until after the first round is scheduled.

Here's why:

Say I get 300 applications. Obviously only 128 can play, right? So I pick 128 teams and send them on their way scheduling. If Team ABC doesn't schedule their game with XYZ I have to find a replacement. Well, now those other teams that didn't make it have made other plans. I finally find a team, but now that match is delayed two days. Then the next round is delayed... then another team doesn't schedule.. on and on it goes.

So, instead we have this format. I schedule the games. If Team ABC scheduled another scrim on Day 5, I boot them and pluck another team from the list. Nothing gets delayed.

This season, there we enough teams that scheduled other games, or we like Cap 38 teams (I'm not kidding. Four non Pee Wee teams tried to sign-up) that I am two teams short for the tourney.

Hope that answers your concern. PM me of not, not sure if I will check back here soon.

I never asked for bracket to be released just teams entered, and since you were looking for 70 teams a couple days ago the 300 teams seems a long shot

So say stwcjj has the Gold league, 8 silver leagues, and 16 copper leagues to go through how the hell does that guy do it. He came out with invites and seeds. The dude needs to be a tourney mod!

Originally posted by DrkSandman
Remember human element, folks. I assure you I'll make another mistake someday.

The issue was partly my awesome work PC, and part me clicking a wrong button when something weird happened. You can gather the empty feeling in my gut I had when I saw hours of work go down the drain. Pallow and I worked for about an hour to recover the PMs (you saw some team IDs listed in the announcement - that's what we got) but we just could not get the rest.

In case you're curious, here's how it went down. I was going to try something new this season. Instead of random seeding, I was actually going to give real seeding a go, somewhat. Last season we had one side of the bracket loaded with Gold teams.

While I know Pee Wee starts even, and a Copper team COULD win it all, Gold has some pretty amazing players and owners. So, I was adding all the teams to a spreadsheet, deleting the PMs after doing so. I had planned to do a bit of sorting based on finish last season in the tourney, league level, etc.

I still tried to get things a bit more fair today, but I just didn't have the time and didn't want to keep you all waiting.

I'm sorry some of you feel that my tournament is "bush league," but please remember - I'm volunteering my time to do something nice for the community. I don't expect you to love it, but I'd appreciate feedback as opposed to random pot shots on the forum. Nothing I can do if I don't know what's wrong.

Good luck to you all this season!

Thanks for all your hard work.

Originally posted by PING72
Thanks for all your hard work.

+1

Originally posted by ericelroybarman
So say stwcjj has the Gold league, 8 silver leagues, and 16 copper leagues to go through how the hell does that guy do it. He came out with invites and seeds. The dude needs to be a tourney mod!


Magic 8 Ball??

Originally posted by middawg

Magic 8 Ball??



sssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Besides I use an 8 sided die instead

Originally posted by ericelroybarman
cool only a couple days ago you were looking for like 70 teams, did you fill this tourney up only after sending pms to teams such as Short Bus?IMO Bush League

I have no clue what you're talking aboutOriginally posted by middawg

Previous Tourney Champions should be given the number 1 seeds, hth.



I put the teams with the best finishes last season in the four corners of the bracket as a little incentive. But, Pee Wee is awesome. We'll surely have some "unproven" team kicking butt this season.

Originally posted by ericelroybarman
I never asked for bracket to be released just teams entered, and since you were looking for 70 teams a couple days ago the 300 teams seems a long shot

We had plenty sign up. I "needed" 70 before Bort put up the announcement. The ones that were already in applied just with the thread and no advertising. Once the announcement went up, I was inundated with apps.

It's obvious based on your PMs and posts to me that you're interested in trolling. So, go for it I suppose. But, you're really not bothering me, just FYI.

Good luck everyone, should be a fun one.