Area Tournament, Round 1 coming up
So... it has been a while.
Sorry, when the time came to officially close the entry forms for submissions, I was a bit disappointed in the low amount of submissions it had received. So I thought I'd quietly postpone a short bit.
Which became a long bit, where I then felt that simply going back and finally closing the forms without an impressive showing would be embarrassing, so I just kinda... let it sit. And the weeks became months, which became an almost half year.
Well, I'm finally kicking myself together to get this started. We have 25 submissions, submitting a total of 22 areas once overlaps have been accounted for (Colony 9 twice (both specifying the XC1 version) and Sylvalum thrice).
While a power of two amount of entries is more important in elimination brackets than it is for Swiss System Tournaments, I did think that 22 was an unimpressive enough showing that I should try to pad it a bit, so I have elected to add 10 areas of my own choosing. 9 of these are settlements from the first two games (which I feel is the least biased selection I could make), while the tenth is Satorl Marsh, simply because that area was mentioned in the propaganda of a submission, despite it itself funnily enough not being submitted (shame, because it might be my personal favorite from 1, which might also factor into me breaking the aforementioned pattern in mod additions here).
Seeding is less important for this style of tournament, since there are no actual knockouts, so bad matchups won't ruin any one entrant's chances early on. Because of this, I'm doing the first round by the highly scientific method known as sorting the areas alphabetically and pairing neighbors against each other.
This gives us the following round 1 matchups:
Alba Cavanich vs. Alcamoth
Argentum vs. Auresco
Captocorn Peak vs. Colony 4
Colony 6 vs. Colony 9
Elaice Highway vs. Elysium
Erythia Sea vs. Fonsa Myma
Fonsett Village vs. Frontier Village
Great Cotte Falls vs. Hidden Machina Village
Land of Morytha vs. Leftherian Archipelago
Lost Colony vs. New Los Angeles
Noctilum vs. Primordia
Sacred Water Cavern vs. Satorl Marsh
Swordmarch vs. Sylvalum
The City vs. The Kingdom of Uraya
Theosoir vs. Torigoth
Urayan Stomach vs. Valak Mountain
If the whole debacle with the two submission polls because of the image submission option turns out to be the reason that submissions were sparse, I'll be kicking myself, since I only got image submissions for Uraya, Sylvalum (twice) and Noctilum.
Oh, and given we're trying out a new tournament format, maybe it's for the better we do a smaller one. With 32 entries, it'd be 5 rounds to find a number one, so to get a feel for the finer rankings, I'm thinking somewhere in the ballpark of 8-10 rounds.
