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Thanks everyone for participating...honestly, this is more than I had dreamed of when we started the ASCWeekly
I apologize to those who felt left out or disappointed with the fact that we kept registrations open. As Seltsam already explained however, we did have an issue with no-shows in week #1, and therefore wanted to make sure we kept it open so people could still register and have a shot...which, worked out tonight in bronze/silver as we had to use some of those backups. If we hadn't kept registration open, we would've had people getting free passes through their rounds, which is no fun at all.
If the tournament keeps expanding at this insane rate, we'll likely expand it up to a RO32 - it just goes to show that people were really looking for this tournament, and we're glad we could be a part of it  The response has been unbelievable.
Thank you everyone so far for participating, thanks to the admins who volunteer their time, and thanks everyone for watching the live stream and vods!
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If you're registered for the gold/plat tournament tomorrow, you should show up even if you're not one of the top 16. We had 4 drop-outs in today's tournament, and the first 6 or 7 backups weren't around. Something like the 24th signup got into a 16 person bracket. No-shows get dropped at precisely 9pm EST.
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I'm dropping the tournament. goiflin.818, plat league. My computer is having harddrive issues, posting this from a p3 right now.
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Thanks for the heads-up, Goiflin. Better luck next week, and I hope you get your computer issues solved
Also, I just checked the bracket. We're at 74 signups. That is pretty absurd. Next week will definitely be a 32-person bracket, and if signups continue at this rate, it may move to 64 eventually. However, the more it expands, the shorter the rounds will become. Next week, round of 16 and any rounds before (round of 32, 64, etc.) will be best of 1 matches.
I know some of you have expressed frustration at the limitations imposed on the amount of people who are allowed to participated in each tournament, and all I can say is please be patient while we make sure there is enough of an infrastructure that a larger tournament doesn't break our brains.
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Do you guys make new threads for each tournament or do you update this one every week?
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We update this thread Also, you can easily keep up to date at ASCWeekly.com!
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cool, just signed up for the Plat tourney.
Cya tonight !!
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wow good turnout. the people signing up and watching are slowly increasing ^^ best of luck to you guys and week #1 was pretty fun and cant wait until this week. I think the best part is that the casters are pretty decent and people get to be on stream and watch their own vods etc. if I was bronze/silver/gold/plat i would love something like this.
You guy should all check it out! The skill level and whatnot may not be up to par with other tournys and such, but it's really fun and people who have competed love it and people kind of get to know either other and love just watching on stream and chatting it up. It's really a lot of fun ^^ check it out =]
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cant play today because im at work, good luck to everyone in the gold/plat, great tourny, lots of fun!
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Had a great time yesterday in bronze/silver tourney. Watching the VOD's of my games in the semi's really gave me some insight on my play. Looking forward to watching some of the gold/plat matches today. Thanks again for hosting, hope to compete again next week.
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Good games to Lamar and gfys, it was fun.
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Awesome tournament everyone. I'll definitely play again next week.
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Great tournament tonight! Congratulations to Swordfish for taking the title this week!
DEFINITELY go check out the VoDs. There some some RIDICULOUS games!
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Can't believe I missed it. I only glanced at the time super briefly last night and in the back of my mind today I thought it was at 9PM... forgot it said EST blah. Oh well 
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Thanks for the opportunity to play! Definitely gave me an idea of the mental stamina the pros need to have. (And this was only ro16? T_T)
My brain was definitely mush after playing Daggar.
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Thank you to to the gold/plat division for giving us some awesome games! Congratulations Swordfish!
Thank you to Seltsam our regular caster, and new ASCWeekly team member vVvVenerati for casting with Seltsam! Glad to have you on board :D
Original post updated with new info!
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When will registrations for week 3 start?
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Registrations for week #3 will start on friday, however moving forward we'll likely open registrations the day after each tournament, which gives bronze/silver players more time to sign up.
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And prizes next week! Only for bronze/silver and gold/plat right now, though.
And larger brackets! At least for gold/plat, maybe for bronze/silver. If we have like 40+ signups in bronze/silver, we'll probably change it. But given how often it is for people to just not show up, it would be silly to do a 32 person bracket if we had barely 32 people sign up. So if we break 40 or so, we'll probably change that to a 32 person bracket, too.
Also the rules have been slightly changed and clarified. Round of 32 and 16 will be best of 1 matches, then ro8 and 4 will be best of 3 matches, then the finals will still be a best of 5.
Definitely check out the rules before you sign up, before you check in, or something. At least look at them once before you play. We don't have time to answer ALL the questions people ask, and the questions that are answered by the rules page are the first ones to get ignored. We're not trying to be rude when we do that, but the 30 minutes or so before the tournament is crunch time, and we're usually working furiously to try to get it going on time. There is simply not enough time in the day.
So please please PLEASE read the rules page!
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On January 21 2011 07:13 Seltsam wrote:
And prizes next week! Only for bronze/silver and gold/plat right now, though.
And larger brackets! At least for gold/plat, maybe for bronze/silver. If we have like 40+ signups in bronze/silver, we'll probably change it. But given how often it is for people to just not show up, it would be silly to do a 32 person bracket if we had barely 32 people sign up. So if we break 40 or so, we'll probably change that to a 32 person bracket, too.
Also the rules have been slightly changed and clarified. Round of 32 and 16 will be best of 1 matches, then ro8 and 4 will be best of 3 matches, then the finals will still be a best of 5.
Definitely check out the rules before you sign up, before you check in, or something. At least look at them once before you play. We don't have time to answer ALL the questions people ask, and the questions that are answered by the rules page are the first ones to get ignored. We're not trying to be rude when we do that, but the 30 minutes or so before the tournament is crunch time, and we're usually working furiously to try to get it going on time. There is simply not enough time in the day.
So please please PLEASE read the rules page!
From a players stand point I really enjoyed the bo3 for the earlier rounds, it set this tourney apart from some of the other lower league tourneys I've participated in. That said I understand it can really drag things out if you have 3 epic macro games that last half an hour each.
Still looking forward to playing in this again next week. Thanks for all the hard work you guys put in to set this up!
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