For some reason when I signed up I thought this was being hosted on the 17th, not the 13th, sorry about not showing up.
All fine, each tournament many players don't attend for various reasons, thanks for posting a message about it, appreciated.
Im pretty sure tournament's quality in terms of players were fine , I believe I pushed extaz to limits even though losing him 3-2 it was really close and last round was anyone's game . So If you are not satisfied by the "quality" of the attendance that will eventually face Lebrave , extazz and haze tell us not to sign up at all .
I will only quote this since the rest got answered by Lone, not gonna repeat the same thing twice. You're free to believe what you want, not here to convince you anyways, but I will just add that would have I choosed one player over the other to go through - considering they played the exact same way - knowing Ledger is a good friend and someone I have a high respect for, that could have appeared like the most biased decision ever. Even Ledger agreed I took the right decision back then when we talked about it on steam, considering the situation. You're just repeating arguments he already used, but that you don't quite understand like he does, so I will stick to what Ledger and I discussed if you don't mind.
As for the 'tournament quality', as the host, what you want is your tournament to be organized the most perfect way possible, but also in case of a competitive event, to have the best players possible ever. I'm just being pragmatic here and saying that would Axiom and Tiberias had been there, the final top3 result could have been possibly a bit different. Did I say I wasn't happy about the tournament quality though? I didn't. We had many great duelist, some going out earlier than expected actually. I just got the Top 3 I expected, and while I respect Haze, ExtaaZz and LeBrave's performances, I like to be surprised, and when big upsets happen. That's it.
Now I appreciate you Rebel, and I'm saying that without trying to offend you, but to my eyes, you're just getting a bit carried away due to your result against ExtaaZz and see direspect where there is none. Your performance actually surprised me, not gonna lie, and means you could have probably went a bit further in the tournament if you hadn't meet ExtaaZz so early BUT, it was a Ft3, which is extremly short and often can lead to potential upest aaaaand .. you still lost. I could be wrong, but I really think that would you and ExtaaZz re-do a Ft5 or Ft7 10 times, ExtaaZz would win comfortably 9 or 10 times out of this. And that doesn't make you a bad player either, far from it, cause you're not (you're actually way better than me) just not a top duelist either yet.
I was happy with anyone showing up, you included, as you were all a reason of why the tournament was successful. So don't take my comment for what its not please.
The final has been set-up to this Friday 20:00BST. I will post an announcement as soon as possible for the server so people who want to watch can. Same rules will apply though, everyone stay spec.