Josko's 50th Tournament {Round 2/Round 3 starts}

[shoop76]

Is that start date or end date?

[Meatcat]

DON'T KNOW HOW TO JOIN

[benjaminh]

Not sure how this works, but I'll play

[lepatterson]

Thank you for the invite and I accept.

[josko.ri]

DON'T KNOW HOW TO JOIN

This post signs you up.

[Chariot of Fire]

Any indication of...

*How many more you need to join?

*When will it start?

*When will it end?

I can help with #1 if you still need players to join

[josko.ri]

Any indication of...

*How many more you need to join?

*When will it start?

*When will it end?

I can help with #1 if you still need players to join

I am ready to start with about 800 players but just doing final check with about 15 Freemiums whether they are going to renew the membership or not.

In the meantime, I still accept players until I make the draw so if you know some last minute interested players, I would be happy if you invite them to join.

I will start sending games the latest this Sunday but more likely even before when I will have free afternoon. It is a lot of job to send 2000+ invites manually.

There will be contest with prizes for guessing end date of the tournament, which I will start after I send the play in round games.

[Scarlet Lady]

Any indication of...

*When will it start?
*When will it end?

There will be contest with prizes for guessing end date of the tournament, which I will start after I send the play in round games.

Why not have a prize for guessing the start date?

[benga]

Any indication of...

*How many more you need to join?

*When will it start?

*When will it end?

I can help with #1 if you still need players to join

I am ready to start with about 800 players but just doing final check with about 15 Freemiums whether they are going to renew the membership or not.

In the meantime, I still accept players until I make the draw so if you know some last minute interested players, I would be happy if you invite them to join.

I will start sending games the latest this Sunday but more likely even before when I will have free afternoon. It is a lot of job to send 2000+ invites manually.

There will be contest with prizes for guessing end date of the tournament, which I will start after I send the play in round games.

I am holding you for your word about the start date.

[Chariot of Fire]

Any indication of...

*When will it start?
*When will it end?

There will be contest with prizes for guessing end date of the tournament, which I will start after I send the play in round games.

Why not have a prize for guessing the start date?

I'm going to guess 12th July

Do I win a fiver?

[JoJo123]

In

[rich908]

in thank you.

[bahtolo]

sure, i'll join. thanks for the invite

[Martin7431]

thanks for the invite. sure, why not?

[Bloodthirster]

I would like to join the tournament

[theflycassanova]

I have had something come up and won't be on CC much in the coming months.

Please remove me from the roster.

Apologies for the inconvenience here.


Fly

[mkknyr]

thanks for the invitation. i'll join in!

[hopalong]

happy tournament eve, everyone!
or maybe not? invites still going out as of 3 hours ago, looks like we might not have enough people to start.

[KikeDaniel]

Ok I´m in

[STDADDIO]

Please sign me up.

[josko.ri]

I will send invites today.

798 players are in, it would be nice to get two more to reach Mark of 800 players.

[josko.ri]

Today I have done every preparation for starting the tournament, all data is collected and analyzed, about 50 players who left the site or went Freemium are removed and finally we come to the list of 798 participating players, of which 113 are from Advanced Tribes and 104 from Primitive Tribes. The List with seedings is posted below.

Players list (798/?)
Advanced Tribe players list (113/?)
Primitive Tribe players list (104/?)

show: Players list and seedings - 798

show: Advanced Tribe players list - 113

show: Primitive Tribe players list - 104

Pairings in play-in round will be 257 seed vs 768 seed, 258 seed vs 767 seed etc until 512 seed vs 513 seed. in total 4 games times 256 matches. Players among 769 to 798 seed will be used as replacement for some players from 257 seed to 768 seed who do not accept their invites, but if acceptance rate will be high and they cannot find a place for themselves then I will pair them with players seeded 256 and above.

I hope I will have enough time tomorrow after my job to send out invites, which is a ton of job. I need to manually send 2048 invites to 1024 games.

Note, if anyone wants to contribute as co-organizer and send these tons of invites instead of me, I would be more than grateful. As I said, everything is ready for the tournament and only what is waiting is when I find time to manually send 2048 invites or when someone else helps me to do so.

In the meantime, I still accept new players until the time that I start sending invites. I have slight hope that at least two more players might join to reach mark of 800 players.

[josko.ri]

shoop76 kindly offered to send invites for one quarter of the bracket (4*64 = 256 games).
I can also do for one quarter.
Any takers to help with invites of the rest two quarters of the bracket?

[Mad777]

will you use challonge for the bracket? Also counting on player who may not join at all, will randomly repairing those who will be left without opponent or will they have a “bye”?

[josko.ri]

will you use challonge for the bracket? Also counting on player who may not join at all, will randomly repairing those who will be left without opponent or will they have a “bye”?

I will use challonge.
And I can also provide list of matches for players who want to volunteer to send invites.

Pairings in play-in round will be 257 seed vs 768 seed, 258 seed vs 767 seed etc until 512 seed vs 513 seed. in total 4 games times 256 matches.

Players among 769 to 798 seed will be used as replacement for some players (using seeding system to determine replacements slots) from 257 seed to 768 seed who do not accept their invites, but if acceptance rate will be high and they cannot find a place for themselves then I will pair them with players seeded 256 and above.

Also I will still leave space for reserves to change no show players, if there will be late sigups.

If there will be no shows in next rounds then I will use some of lucky losers from the previous round as their replacement, similar like it is used in tennis. I will not give byes in case of no shows.