Thanks PROGAMER. Glad to see people understand the amount of work put into this.

ROUND 2 IS COMPLETE!

We will now proceed to the final round of the tournament! Everyone still in the tournament ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtOa7GN6bwsLdC11V24yWFFxWFE3cUM1dTVlSlZWenc&pli=1#gid=0 ) will be invited to the tournament and it will not start until everyone accepts! Any declines will have to be swapped out with bogus account which will surrender the game immediately.

I'd expect this round to begin in about a month. The template for the tournament is still being sorted out, and any suggestions can be proposed here.

something is very wrong with the template setting matches with so many open seats.. i would say it is essential to restart the whole final round in this case.. sorry, but if you play first game with an open seat, and the second one with open seat, or open seat (depending which open seat wins sic!) then its a bit unfair for those who have to stand up and fight actual players all the way up...

Not really. They're playing someone who didn't show up and theoretically receive a bye to the next match.

Besides, I'm not willing to change the way the final round is played for three reasons:

• Starting over means we have to wait for the 90 players left in the tournament, which could take another three weeks.
  
• Starting over also means we may lose other players, those that don't bother joining again. And going by your logic, we'd have to start over AGAIN following that. And,
  
• It totally messes up the rankings below 128.

So it will come down to whether or not you had the luck of the draw or not.

We're now down to the final four players!

I'd just like to make a few honourable mentions before the tournament ends:

• In 193rd place, Czaka Z. did not make it through to the second round despite winning 50% of his games! Bummer.
  
• 62nd place finishers [P] Swiffe, lawm, and ♦CPU♦ Febo {Warlighter}, who all went undefeated in the first round, could not win their first final round match-up. Opportunity missed...
  
• Finishing in 28th place, Nurhachi cut it close on the first round, finishing 6th out of 9 players to just avoid being knocked out of the tournament. He then lost his only match in Round 2 but luckily managed to pass anyway. In the Round of 128 he lucked out with a bye and defeated [REGL] gotopogo to finish 28th!
  
• Finishing in 16th position, BankSea also nearly missed his tough first round cut, but came back in the second round with a win to play in the final round. There, he defeated three opponents before falling to ps, currently aiming for 1st or 2nd!
  
• Got to mention Tacticus, who in Round 1 just missed out on a bye to the finals by placing third. Instead, he lost his only game in Round 2 but still made it through with a bye, and ended up winning four of his matches in the final round to score 8th place!