Conclusion...
Just wanted to round this tournament off with a statement, since I have reached the date by which I needed to let this go as I'll be absent from NW for at least one or two months.
Firstly I'm pretty chuffed at how this has run (final aside!!) as up to this point it has kept on track. The main people behind the smooth running of the schedule have been some fantastic Coalition leaders, which I would like to thank here; organising any competitive match as we know is stressful at the best of times but these guys had to organise groups of regiments... very tricky!!
El Presidente, Mitchell, Jakob, Spoons, Ulfur, Krytten, Ipoa & Dragonking - they all got their teams through the group-stage and we only ended up with one full team capitulation which is in of itself is a great success and in the end is all thanks to you guys and your dedication.
Secondly massive thankyou to all the refs, as we quickly discovered that one or even two refs were sometimes not enough. A relatively small team of refs got the matches played so a special thanks to those names whom I believe took the lions share of matches:
Tardet, Kaiser, Anna, Grekos, Cameron, Jakob, El Presidente, Krytten and last but not least Samu!I hope that the final two teams can organise their match but as I will be unable to follow this through, I leave organisation of this final exciting match in their capable hands. Best of luck to them both and again congratulations to the Cool Casuals for securing 3rd place already in the lower bracket.
Finally thank you to the community as a whole for having a little faith, applying and seeing the tournament through, before what I hope will not be my complete departure from the community
PS: Shameless plug for the 33rd; thankyou for hosting all matches using their servers, as these are paid for by voluntary donations by its fabulous members <3