Newt's 16p / 4 Stage / Always-a-Chance / #2

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Newt created the tournament on 2021-10-06

Newt

Hello!

This will be my second Tournament in this format. My goal is to create one in which players of average ability and experience can be competative so I am restricting it to levels 30-42.

It is a fast(er) play tournament - Med Async with a shorter reserve (36 hrs) so it is also TIME ZONE RESTRICTED to within 7 hours of New York City. This excludes players in Asia and Australia for purely practical reasons (sorry!). Discussion of the Time Zone Problem is here:
https://forum.czechgames.com/d/1695-feature-request-time-zone-in-player-profile

Here is the link to join tne Tournament - it is a Round-Robin in 4 Stages of 6 games each. Only the top 4 players are in the 4th Stage, so you will play a minimum of 18 games, maybe 24. You will always have a chance to be in the final 4, right up to the end of the third Stage. Details are in the Tournament Description.
https://account.czechgames.com/tournaments/detail/3329

I will approve your join after confirming your location, so please look for a friend request from me and an email to respond to.

Newt

Hello Everyone.

Most slots have been claimed - HOWEVER - to be "accepted", you must accept my friend request and respond to my query about your location (anything that will communicate your timezone - your continent is enough, but more specific info is welcome).

I'm currently in the Bahamas, but will be heading back to California in November and then on to New Mexico after that - so North America for me.

Status
16 have applied
11 are accepted (having accepted a friend request and confirmed their location within 7 hrs of NYC)

I am waiting on five players to confirm their locations. 3 have not yet responded to a friend request.

Newt

Hello again,

There are now twenty-one players asking to join the tournament. 13 have been accepted. There are three slots left.

In order to be accepted in one of the last three slots, you must accept a friend request from me and then respond to me when I ask you what time zone you are in.

A few players requested to join several days ago and have not yet responded to my friend request or to my question about their location. I am not waiting for them, at this point it is "first come first served" - the next three players who respond to my email and provide their location will be accepted and we will begin the tournament.

Newt

I now have 24 join requests and have sent friend requests to all. I am awaiting confirmations of location.

If the join requests continue to roll in, I will very likely start another instance of this tournament right away, so if you don't make it into this one (#2), then expect an invitation to "Newt's 16p / 4 Stage / Always-a-Chance / #3"

Newt

O.K. We have our 16 players!
I will ask the software to randomly seat the first round and start the first three games in each group.
Good Luck and have fun!

STAGE 1 GROUP 1
MBlueMan - Toronto
Milanmar - Central Europe
Elchupacabra - Macedonia
Newt - USA, Mountain

STAGE 1 GROUP 2
Surgeeeee - UK
Papella - Italy
Mockinbird5 - Scotland
Boromir7 - Poland

STAGE 1 GROUP 3
Sodapyap - Canada
Vanishshadow - Canada
Chroso - USA, Pacific
Gustn_toh - Brazil

STAGE 1 GROUP 4
Roverandom - Croatia
LyzzeeP - USA, Arizona
Pantherra - Poland
Ndzwdz - Poland

Newt

Soon we will begin stage 2. Watch this space for the seatings based on round 1 finishes according to this pattern
(As described in the Tournament Details):

STAGE 2 GROUP 1

Stage 1, Group 1, 1st Place

Stage 1, Group 2, 2nd Place

Stage 1, Group 3, 3rd Place

Stage 1, Group 4, 4th Place

STAGE 2 GROUP 2

Stage 1, Group 2, 1st Place

Stage 1, Group 3, 2nd Place

Stage 1, Group 4, 3rd Place

Stage 1, Group 1, 4th Place

STAGE 2 GROUP 3

Stage 1, Group 3, 1st Place

Stage 1, Group 4, 2nd Place

Stage 1, Group 1, 3rd Place

Stage 1, Group 2, 4th Place

STAGE 2 GROUP 4

Stage 1, Group 4, 1st Place

Stage 1, Group 1, 2nd Place

Stage 1, Group 2, 3rd Place

Stage 1, Group 3, 4th Place

Newt

Here are the results of the first stage... and the seating for the second stage. I am replacing one player who "timed out" twice in stage 1. Once we get that substitution completed, we will start the 6 games of the second stage!

The replacement player is @Ioannis3 from Greece. Because round 1 scores will be used to break ties moving forward I will not penalize him by giving him only the score achieved by his predessor, instead, I award him a score equal to the "mode" score of the entire field of 16 players - which is 225 TP (Tournament Points).

Here are the results of Stage 1 - ordered by by Stage 2 groupings.

HOW TO READ THE RESULTS: "G1 – 1 @milanmar 450" means...
"G1" Milanmar was in Group 1 during Stage 1;
"1" Milanmar was first place in his group;
"450" milanmar scored 450 TP in Stage 1.

STAGE 2 – GROUP 1

G1 – 1 @milanmar 450
G2 – 2 @Mockingbird5 225
G3 – 3 @Chroso 100
G4 – 4 @LyzzeeP 75

STAGE 2 – GROUP 2

G2 – 1 @Boromir7 525
G3 – 2 @gustn_toh 350
G4 – 3 @ndzwdz 100
G1 – 4 @Newt 75

STAGE 2 – GROUP 3

G3 – 1 @vanishadow 550
G4 – 2 @Panthera 300
G1 – 3 @MBlueMan 225
G2 – 4 @Papella 100

STAGE 2 – GROUP 4

G4 – 1 @roverandom 575
G1 – 2 @ElChupacabra 300
G2 – 3 @Sergeeeee 200
G3 – 4 @Ioannis3 225

Newt

Everyone is falable... Please check my work and make sure I got the scores from round 1 correct, and also the seating correct.

I am looking for several of you to "like" the above post before I start the next round - or to comment on the results or to make any comment about the tournament so far.

It's nice to have at least one other person who is paying as close attention to the results as I am... as a cross-check on the results I post.

Thanks!

Newt

Mockingbird5

Looks correct for original group 2. Thanks.

Newt

I am proceeding with seeding and will start stage two shortly.

roverandom

G4 results look correct. good luck in stage 2 everyone!

Newt

@roverandom @Mockingbird5 Thanks for contributing! Any comments are welcome.

Papella

I hope to have another chance to be defeated by Boromir, as all the original G2...

roverandom

This perfect placements in first 3 games of group 4 😃

Chroso

Stage 2, Group 1 finished. I'm looking forward to seeing points for all the groups! 🙂

Newt

One group still needs to finish. Hopefully, we'll get the next round started next week.

Newt

Here are the results from Stage #2 Ranked.
There were 2 time outs - Panthera and Sergeeee (-25 for each offense)
How to read: finish rank, Name, Stage #2 Score / Stage #1 Score / Random Result

vanishadow 600/
Boromir7 550/
milanmar 500/450
ElChupacabra 500/300
roverandom 400/575
Chroso 400/100
Panthera 225/
gustn_toh 200/350
Newt 200/75
Ioannis3 100/225 Won Toss
Mockingbird5 100/225
Papella 100/100 Won Toss
ndzwdz 100/100
MBlueMan 75/
LyzzeeP 50/
Sergeeeee 25/

Newt

Here are the Stage 3 Seatings. Stage 3 will determine who graduates to the final Stage. The top THREE players from the Winners Bracket will advanced to the championship round... The top ONE player from the Losers Bracket will advance to the final (championship) round. As usualy, ties will be broken by cumulative scores from previous rounds.

Winners Bracket - Group 1
@vanishadow
@milanmar
@Chroso
@gustn_toh

Winners Bracket Group 2
@Boromir7
@ElChupacabra
@roverandom
@Panthera

Losers Bracket - Group 1
@Newt
@Mockingbird5
@MBlueMan
@Sergeeeee

Losers Bracket - Group 2
@Ioannis3
@Papella
@ndzwdz
@LyzzeeP

Newt

I'm following a new protocol in this stage.

I'm waiting until all four groups have completed three games before I start it second three games of the stage.