1st 🥇NPP A
2nd 🥈Akatsuki
3rd 🥉 Nr13
Thanks to all teams that came to the tournament it was arefreshing to have rookie teams battle it out in a balls to the walls group stage with teams playing 7 FT5 matches in the group stage for a very up in the air tournament. I would like to thank a few people in particular mainly Mitchell for cohosting this tournament with me, but also to Tardet and Clikenforce for helping me referee matches and providing advice with the tournament in regards to rulesets and formats. I would also like to thank the 16 man admin team in particularly to Fotin and Snikk acting as headadmins on either of the servers, reffing over 120 matches spending hour and a half banging through these - it was nice not having team captains referee matches but individual neutral referees - without you guys it wouldn't have been as smooth as the tournament turned out to be.
Obviously this was the first tournament of its kind and was a great success, there was always going to be roster issues as proved by the 20 odd pages of FSE shit spam on this thread. We tried to make this tournament as genuinely rookie as possible whilst maintaining a high level of respectable rookie teams and hype for the tournament, a balance that maybe we didn't get right this time but will next timel. Personally I had a blast hosting this despite it being very time intensive but I hope my time committed was reflected in the smooth quality of tournament that was provided today. It was honestly very refreshing and enjoyable to see many regimental based group fighting teams actually enjoying matches at a decent level and actually preforming - something that current tournaments and current formats don't allow. Hopefully we can see in the future see some of these slightly stronger rookie teams getting involved in the current tournaments hosted now, something that the current scene desperately needs.
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