O.W.L. 2 Multiplayer Tournament

[qrrbrbirbel]

my child

[nobody_serenity]

Hi, everyone!
After a long (looooooooong) tournament, it is my pleasure to announce O.W.L. 2 as officially concluded. Thank you all so much for participating!

Firstly, to not go on about it too much: I'm very sorry for how long the tournament took. A set of really unfortunate circumstances ended up making the tournament a bit too hard for us to run and then it hit a pretty hard snag. Players ended up stranded for multiple weeks without a match, some dropped out over shifting priorities and availabilities; it's unfortunate that it ended up that way. It also affected our ability to do a Grand Finals stream, which Velo made a spec client for, because we needed to wrap up the tournament sooner than later and it sucks that we ended up not having that too. In the end, I can only apologize for those who couldn't continue to participate in the tournament and be very thankful for those who played to the end.


As part of this apology, we will be distributing:
• 10,000 Credits for every player who had a match due by February 17
• A participation badge for every player who made bracket, played at least one match*, and was not disqualified**; top 3 badges instead for high-placing players

*Playing at least one match does not include winning by default.
**Losing by default / no-showing does not constitute disqualification, nor does forfeiting or abandoning the tournament (considered forfeiting all future matches)

In addition to those above, all tournament prizes have been distributed to our top 8 participants. Check your Transfer Log and Token Shop to see if you've received everything correctly and notify us if something's up!

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I'm also very glad for everyone who told me that they had fun playing in the tournament. It made me very motivated that it could be a positive experience despite the undesired delays, and that it could be remembered for more than just that. Thanks a lot, really. ^^

We also hope that you enjoyed the picking system! We decided very early not to do tiebreakers, and to then deviate from traditional osu!-style alternate picking to ensure a fair experience. Elite Ninja came up with the picking system we're using now (shoutouts!) and it seems that everyone understood it quite well despite our fears that it would be more complex. It was great to see it working without a hitch, but if you have any thoughts about it, let us know!

Hopefully the pools were good too - we put a lot of work into making sure the picks were varied, interesting and balanced, and that they could set an example for what a traditional pool in FFR can look like. They were honestly pretty fun to make (despite how much inevitable stress they represent LOL), and somehow both harder and easier to construct than I initially imagined; I was personally quite satisfied with them, and I hope our participants were too c:

And finally, a last shoutout to our Top 3 from each Bracket!

Bracket 1
1st Place: V0xel
2nd Place: botchi246
3rd Place: Craze_ef


Bracket 2
1st Place: E-B-E
2nd Place: RenaPlatinak2
3rd Place: Snupeh

Bracket 3
1st Place: Zoobin4
2nd Place: XxNewson1234xX
3rd Place: Znow

tl;dr: participation badge, long spiel, thanks for playing <3