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Dates aren't concrete yet but the weekend of this tournament will be my first weekend of my vacation. I'll be staying in Japan for about 2 weeks. I'll be staying in Tokyo with Kyle and then branching out to Yokohama (and possibly Yokosuka), Nagoya, Osaka, and Kyoto.

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I will be posting results and media as it becomes available. P4U Top 16: http://challonge.com/WBP4UTOP16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60KjBhqPAt8 BB 1st brkrdv (AR) 2nd Lord Knight (LI) 3rd SKD (RG) 4th TD (RA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_d-6LXZMGU GG 1st MarlinPie (ED/SL) 2nd RPD Alex Smith (MA) 3rd Vyers (BA) 4th Mynus (IN) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbEBUV4RGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYf9Iv3nAEo

ElvenShadow, I'm visiting Japan again for this. We should get drunk and play some GG.

There is no good way. It depends on the person running it and the type of tournament. This tournament is different because it was free. TSB is done differently because it's a small monthly. NEC was done differently because there were qualifiers held before it.

Most of the time when I seed a tournament, I do it by skill, and then region. This time around I did it randomly then by region because it's free entry. There are only 3 people who I would have moved, based on skill, if they were randomly seeded in the same pool using the pre-registration list: brkrdv, LK and SKD. LK did not pre-register and SKD/brkrdv saved me the trouble because they were randomly seeded away from one another. Other then that I tried to move people based on region. The reason it's those three is because SKD could be considered the strongest player in the US right now based on tournament performance, with LK and brkrdv close behind. I didn't go past top 3 because it was my choice to make. Deal with it. Thank god I wasn't forced to play favorites cause then I'd have to do it for everyone. Guess what happens when you do that? You're technically rigging the brackets. You're getting randomly placed into the brackets if you register on-site as well. That means LK might have to play SKD/brkrdv in pools. Please shut the fuck up and don't tell me how I would plan on making brackets. You are not me and you are not running this tournament. This tournament is free entry. You have no room to complain. If you want to complain then go talk to Eric: it's his money, not mine. I'm doing my job. There are no rules on this, it's up to me how I wanted to seed. And take it from me, if you were to complain about this at the tournament and I explained everything it to Eric, you wouldn't get anywhere. If I were to rig the brackets then we would have a problem, but guess what? Everyone was seeded randomly and WILL CONTINUE to be seeded randomly. That's as fair as you can get. Hell, I even streamed myself making the brackets and pools. I suggest all TO's start doing the same. My job as a TO is not to try and make everyone happy: you'll never start the tournament. Please seed, run, and stream a 100+ man tournament and make sure everyone got a "fair" bracket on top of that. What the fuck is fair? Fair is subjective. This is a tournament. You play to win. If you're not prepared to play everyone that could possibly enter then don't enter in the first place. I talked with Psyken on Facebook and he's confident that he'll beat Kyo and make it out of pools. Stop posting on the subject. EAD. See you all there tonight or tomorrow. Travel safe.

I received the list of pre-registrants sorted by REAL last name. I then assigned pools RANDOMLY. If I recognized that you were in a pool with a friend you play very often (read: I know you and who you play) then I separated you both. After the pools were assigned I RANDOMLY shuffled the bracket in Challonge. People who register on-site will be added into these pools randomly, but I will try my best to seed by region.

Pool assignments for Persona: Pool 1: http://challonge.com/WBP4U1 Pool 2: http://challonge.com/WBP4U2 Pool 3: http://challonge.com/WBP4U3 Pool 4: http://challonge.com/WBP4U4 Pool 5: http://challonge.com/WBP4U5 Pool 6: http://challonge.com/WBP4U6 Pool 7: http://challonge.com/WBP4U7 Pool 8: http://challonge.com/WBP4U8 Nothing is final until pools begin.

Sounds good E. Thanks in advance Vyers. Post up if you can bring stuff!

So who is bringing stuff? I know I've asked this before but it's closer to the tournament date and people should know all of their plans by now. Canada bringing 3 setups? I have my setup as usual. It would be ideal to get 4 more full setups, but Eric will help us out where we need it.

Registration closes at 5PM today. Don't be an idiot: save money and dodge THAT LINE!

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Anyone, if you want you can come to my place Saturday night (exact time TBD) and stay into Sunday that's fine. You can stay until Monday night or drop by randomly in between for some games.

Well, I'm gonna go out drinking with LK tomorrow night and then TSB Saturday. After that people can come by.

Can't wait to body all of your shit in GG. Then use all of your Canadian funny money to buy Unibroue.

Tequila, Heineken...

Nothing is planned yet. This weekend coming up I would still be going to TSB.

BBQ is smarter than all of you. Grats Andy.

Who's bringing stuff? Eric is lending me some things but you guys know the deal. The more setups we have the faster we can run things.

So, this 4 day weekend (Fri-Mon) coming up next week I can have people over for games. Just sayin.

No Copa this time. We're going to see how the sports bar at the hotel works out. I won't be getting in till later Friday night since I get off of work at 3 so I have to pack up my stuff then head out. Not sure what everyone else is doing. Registration should be fixed...

Berkaderv coming out would be godlike.

Waboba sack remote pad

http://bigegaming.com/pre-registration/ Registration for Winter Brawl is up. The games you see listed at the bottom are the only games you can PRE-register for. Other games such as BB and GG will be done on-site-at-the-door. IMPORTANT EDIT: P4A entry will be free. It's currently listed as $5. Eric or myself will post up when this is fixed.

I really hope CP is out by this.