HOW DID I MISS THIS!

You simple declined it, and this is why I didn't send you a reminder mail neither :O

yeah, finish those predictions ox.

lol at jeff

Oh Oh Oh, kay. I think Oh can beat Dom if he tries; how much Oh tries though is dependent on whether or not he's busy shitposting song lyrics into chats. I see FB getting quite an easy win over Turtle, and then winning out over Oh in the Round of 16.

If Legi's not drunk, he can get a win over rakleader I think, and Krzychu has a slight edge over Turkish probably. Krzychu or Turkish would probably stomp either Legi or rakleader, whichever would come up next to be honest.



I'm totally not being biased, but hopefully CONQUISTADORS gets drunk and is booted or something, or maybe he's too rusty :p. Buns will probably beat almosttricky, and the next guy, whoever it is.

Summer vs timon will be a big highlight, and my guess is that timon wins against another all-star, right after knocking timon out in the early rounds. Verze vs Arkanton will be tough, but Verze can keep up his run a bit longer I think. Another highlight follows, and I see timon92 knocking *yet another* heavy player out of the tourney, to meet up with Buns at the quarter finals.



I'm seeing an overall underperforming Bjarke drop his game against Bbraw, and for Hades to win out over AG. Hades will then likely beat Bbraw or Bjarke.

MarkusBM will beat Nox. Hail Dogpoo. QB will very likely beat Pana; I don't see Panagiotis with too much of a chance, but it is possible. Then in the Ma____ (2 letters) game, of MarkusBM and MasterQB, despite bias, QB will almost certainly triumpth, where he'll progress to meet Hades (or Hades will meet him, who knows who finishes faster xP)



I'm going big or going home with this one (or I guess I've already gone home, with one predict lol). I'm guessing Chromeo storms straight through into the quarter finals, beating 2 past #1s on the ladder along the way; 13CHRIS37 and and USA Biches. Now the funny thing is: one of my first round predictions is already wrong; linberson can't get to that round as Kantos has already beaten him. I'm not going to go back on my failed guess though, haha, and just guess that USA Biches beats whoevers against him anyway.

Below, I don't know who'd win between Jackie and Rob, so I took a guess. Regardless, if MoD cares he'd probably go to the quarter finals with ease, but MIFRAN wouldn't go down easily.

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Firstly we have 2 Promotion/Relegation league heavyweights; Krzychu and FlyingBender. What I'm predicting is more of an upset: Krzychu has a much stronger record on the P/R league than FlyingBender, but I'm predicting FB to progress to the semi-finals, anyway.

Next, this is tough. Overall, Buns is probably a more solid, strong, and well rounded player than timon. I've also predicted timon to probably have the most impressive run in this tourney, beating out Timinator, Summer and Verze already. What do you know? I'm guessing he'll *continue* his run, because I think timon is a stronger ME WR player than Buns (this will all go down the shitter if Timi beats timon 2nd round so pleeeaase don't lose timon :p)

Thirdly, I think the ME WR official Seasonal Champ Master QB, will beat Hades. Out of the matches here, it's probably the 2nd easiest to call; the left side having more tough-to-call matches in general. Hades hasn't quite hit his peak yet, while QB has shown that at his peak he can probably win the tournament.

The easiest one to call is MoD (the unofficial ME WR Seasonal champion) v Chromeo. Even though I put a lot on Chromeo going far, unless he does something crazy, desaster will very likely beat him.

Next, P/R league rivals again. About to beat another super-strong player, I'm putting even more guesses on timon. Please don't mess up OwO

Next, I'm actually predicting the *de jure* ME WR seasonal champ to win out over the *de facto* one. Overall, MoD probably has the odds stacked in his favour, but it's hard to call. I think #QB will win :S

Finally, the finals. Who knows?

I'll just say timon for consistency.

#TimTeamon

Great posts Ox <3

great post Ox - even though you raped my name several times :p

I am on holiday, so not too much time for Warlight, but some quick thoughts.

The left down bracket part is very tough :O
So if Timon (or any other players from that part) will win this first Grand Slam, well, that would be very good performance.

But there are more tough pairings in the first two rounds in other parts of the bracket too.
Actually there isn't easy part of the bracket :D
So must fight very hard for anybody if want to reach the first Grand Slam champion title.

Anyway very good posts Ox!

Firstly, looks like I was right with Swisster, but wrong with Dom! >:( It was close. Now I'm just hoping that Oh has a nice streak like I thought so the prediction here is saved.



Why did I say this one would be obvious? ;_; awesomeusername is commonly underrated andit seems like my head went right over him!



C'mon, HHH. Getting booted on something that isn't Clan League? Beh. Anyway, that made things significantly easier for FlyingBender, at least!



Looks like I overestimated BIA here! If rak ends up winning, prediction here is saved.



Ding, ding, ding, ding! Jackpot! Let's hope Krzychu and Turkish win, to keep up this streak ;)



Correct for Semice here, but looks like my bias made me fail in the prediction :p



VS getting curb-stomped! Predicted Summer winning, but I shouldn't have predicted DemHunt to win >_<



As expected.



And here's a surprise :O. Now I have to ride on Verze beating GreenTea, and then sweeping up here, if I want this prediction to go anywhere.



-,- well there goes all my faith in Bbraw



Aaaand awol.



Aaaaaaaaand Pana.



Ey! At least I predicted 13CHRIS37 beating... Unicum. The others i got wrong though :(



Corrrect.



Put too much faith into LIbertine, but at least MIFRAN saved it ;)

These are entertaining predictions haha

lol. From Oxs post I found out I won :D

what about reducing 'Grand Slams' to (best) 64 players and making it double-elim? Unfortunately there is no seeding mechanism in warlight, so there's no way to avoid top players fighting in early rounds which is a big loss. Double-elim would reduce that factor at least a little.

I agree with Chu.Feel bad that I lost first round because i faced a strong opponent,whereas other players face medium strength players :(

Before I started this series I was thinking a lot about the single or double elimination question.
Then I choosed single elimination, because:

• I am lazy :)
  Using single elimination the ATP World Tour point system migration was very simple (ATP events are single eliminations too). But this was only a small reason (but a reason :P) of my decision
  
• When I was an active player, I didn't really like the double elimination system
  I mean, theoretically, it is clearly better than the single, because the pairing issue were mentioned by you. So using double eliminiation, if you lost one game you still have a chance to win the tourney.
  But in practice, for me, it did'nt look like above. After I lost my first game, my motivation level reduced a lot, because the "Road the Redemption" is a very hard journey.
  I don't mean the hard opponents (ok partly yes), but the twice as much needed matches for the tourney win!
  For example, using single elimination a Grand Slam title (128 players) means 7 played games, while using double elim. system, if you lost your first game but after win the tourney, that means 15 played games!
  After you loose your first game, the match number for the win is doubling for you, and the pairing issue is still exist (if you are the third best player, still chance you got the first and second best players as your first two opponents and early out)
  
• Already there is a good double elimination series, the WSOW
  There were round robin and double elimination series, so I wanted to add the missing single elimination system to the palette :)

Ok, despite these, the pairing issue were mentioned by you still exists, this is why I positioned this series as a fun series in the beginning.

Btw, I made a feeble attempt to resolve this:
https://www.warlight.net/Forum/156045-uservoice-new-tournament-feature-suggestions

Ok, first step, I do a real attempt to resolve this.
I mean, I create the user voice tickets and contact Fizzer, maybe a miracle happens :)
With seeding, the issue would been solved. With best of X tournaments and BYES possibilities the Tour system would be perfect :D

If the miracle won't happen, and Fizzer's immediate roadmap will be unbreakable, then we must to make a decision: stay the single or change to double elimination system.

In case of double elminiation system, would be the best if we can merge somehow the WSOW and the AWP World Tour (for example WSOW events can be the major events of AWP World Tour, or I dunno)

Ok, I created the uservoice idea about the seeded private tournament:
https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/15523269-seeded-private-tournaments

Vote please if you like it ;)

And if I have already opened the uservoice site... I have created 3 more idea:

• https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/15523368-best-of-x-tournament-rounds
  
• https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/15523563-bye-option-for-the-private-tournaments
  
• https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warlight-features/suggestions/15523581-swiss-system-tournaments

Vote if you like any of them.

Edited 8/3/2016 09:49:39

I gave 3 votes each to the swiss system tournaments and seeded private tournaments.

In the principle of simplicity I would say Fizzer would be more attracted to making the swiss system tournaments rather than the private seeded tournaments IMO.

I would be happy if one of these nice ideas got implemented =)

Screw you Ox and your lousy predictions!

Hehe, revenge of an exiled :D

Btw, congrats for your win on Verzehrer!
But I can't say that the hardest is already behind you, because your bracket part is damned tough :O

@Plat: thx

Edited 8/5/2016 03:52:54

Ha-ha I've noticed. Once the tournament started I got excited with all the competition haha. Thanks for making the tournament I'm enjoying playing :)

Screw me and my lousy predictions =D



Gotta satisfy my tweenage girl fanbase :*

So while everyone else watches the Olympic results, here's the thing I'm genuinely more interested in, because the Olympics are boring with Team GB and no team to actually root for ._.



Congratulations Oh! Keep going, even though you've lost all your hair stressing about my lousy prediction ._.



And Reza moves forward, to meet awesomeusername in the next round. Prediction-wise, it doesn't matter who wins, because either way it's a massive fail, with me stupidly overrating Turtle >_>



2 correct predictions. As Legi himself would say: "Ay! Wop wop!"



Looking into the second round, Chshee-hoo has beaten Onoma, as expected. Turkish needs to beat Mirror for everything to line up, to get 8 competitors in a row correct! :O

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Nobody expects the AHoL inquisition! DanWales found himself victim to the "I spilled mayo on my caps lock key" CONQUISTADORS, as the drunkard beats over the sheep.



Another victory for Sultan- Suwtan? Suwwatan? *shrug* Oh well, Sułtan. Congrats!



Another correct lousy prediction sees dry-clean-only up against the winner of Muli v Buns; perhaps one of the hardest Round 1 matchups.



As expected. Now here is the reason, why the right bracket will get to the finals before all left bracket round 2 games are over. At least, if this game is anything at all like the P/R league.



So yeah... screw me and my lousy predictions :D

I don't know what to say other than, GG to these bottom 4 ones. Every winner from each of these 2nd rounds is a loss ;_;

Well, at least DR. Love won, which was correct.



Ahahahaha >:D Upset successfully predicted!



Ouch. 2 wrong first-round predictions lead to an impossible 2nd round. I guess Njord will win, but my credibility is worse than Fox News, so who knows? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯



Now this is very interesting. Some correct, some wrong. I don't even know who ThePlayer is, but whoever he is, ruined my guess that Pushover would beat him, on the basis that I have no clue who ThePlayer is x_x

Disregarding that ramble of nonsense, if Hades beats ThePlayer and tommy, then I guess this section is saved.



This is actually 2 separate brackets. In the top, I was right with Nox and wrong with SexMachine (what a name). Lower down, looks like ps beat Matthijs. "I hate Weighted Random".

lousy predictions!

Another 2nd round game went as expected



A real shocker :O NL has a decent track record in this tourney, just from surfpizza and Matthjis.



The 1 prediction I knew I could rely on, 100%. I thought triple-picking USA was smart >_>