ChosenWizard You were one of the people who timed out in your first match. I have done this tournament before and I run a league with Fast Async games. The timeout players do not tend to return. If that were the case, you had plenty of time to make a statement here and tell me why you timed out (and promise to do better). I mentioned this also in one of the first comments, just to be sure. Unfortunately, I cannot change the main description page, as I keep receiving and http 500 error when I try to.
Honestly, I didn't expect so many people to just time out. When I subscribe to a tournament, I'll stay there and play it. We've had 25 players of 192 with a timeout. So what is the option? Continue as planned, replace all timeouts and wait for 25 new players? 2, 3 or even ten can be found quickly, but waiting for 25 would drag out the tournament for everybody. And no guarantee that it would be better next round. And by the time we get back to the main round, some of the winners might have moved on and be the new timeouts...
So I decided that it is the best to move on, even more so since the number of timeouts almost exactly matched the number of players who should be eliminated in Stage 3, anyway. This way everybody still in the game will have a minimum of three games, the only change is that the first round turned out to be a warm-up.
This is the longer explanation for the decision. As of you, I can only say that I respect you as a player and tough opponent, this is nothing personal. I have to decide what is best for all players and try to treat everybody the same way. And then imagine you have to manage some tournament with about 190 anonymous players, most of whom you don't know at all. There is no effective way of communication, very sparse feedback. How would you take a good decision? I very much prefer communication, some exchange with players and so on, but all I have is this and maybe some Facebook group. I'm sorry if I disappointed you, and I hope to meet you again soon in some other game or tournament!
