Since the Round of 64 was removed from the iDevice tournament, that brings the total numner of matches (in both GST's combined) down by a whole 1/3, from 96 (64 iDevice and 32 Mixed) to 64 (32 iDevice and Mixed). There's always been 6 arenas to view the matches from, but will there only be 4 this time? It wouldn't make the tournament take any longer than usual because taking out 1/3 of the rings just evens out wih taking out 1/3 of the matches. Kinda hoping this is the case because it'll be easier to watch and there's less of a chance that spectators will miss matches that they wanna see, and the Winner's room always only shows 4 arenas anyways.

Sorry if that's a mess of a paragraph!  

I ask 1 thing of the admins this season, please open the viewing rooms on time or a little early this GST. Last GST they were opened late and was annoying to get everything organized for my stream  

Posted by fp4

There's about 40 hours from now until the brackets are determined. I feel that's more than enough time to spar and get their scores where they need to be.

Guilds with 100+ rating deviation -- these were the only guilds affected by the change -- shouldn't be able to sit through pre-GST week and coast their way into the brackets.

Switching it to where it allowed for 3 months of time and then instantly, without notice, allowing for 40 hours to catch up is not a well thought out decision. Not to mention in USA it's Thanksgiving week, and therefore some folks are with family or even possibly going out on the biggest shopping day of the entire year.

To be honest, this is just as silly as players expecting GST to now all of a sudden be hosted every 48 hours.

And to be fair, players have been begging for more frequent tourneys rather then having to wait 3 months for a tourney.

I think Classic staff has a good handle on how to host and imo do a great job with it to where they can successfully host at least once a month.

Having said all that, great job keeping up with the updates, they are all great ideas/updates. This was just a timing mistake imo.  

I made a new guild and we went from ~ 2k pts to 6200+ in 2-3h, it really isn't hard to get pts (sparred not so high pts guilds + lost twice). It is just hard at the beginning then it goes fast.  

GST Day final predictions:

It's GST Day so time to post these final day predictions...I'll do iDevice for now and Mixed later:

1) RD - Any team with Dark can be seen as a major threat so I see them going far...especially with sparrers like Noss and Kicko supporting him I honestly don't see how it's possible for them to lose. Also like last week they said they beat BTW 8-2 so this just reinforces what I predict.

2) Amity- They have 3 ex-winners (Fro, Inco and Crime) on their team. I'm sure these 3 can use their experience of winning GST in the past to mentor the rest of their team and make sure they reach top 3.

3) Silver- They pro+been together a long time they always gonna be a top 3 prediction.

Honorable mentions:

4) RS=pro

5) WaV=WaV is a team that definitly will only reach 5th place...just look at their roster. Toich will have to carry them! They have guys like Denny who lost 10-2 to dark in a series. They have Callum+Alex who have a dustbin as their WiFi...I honestly don't see them coming top 3. They should have put Sour on their team since she beat Deicide last GST and did good in her spars...she should replace someone like Callum.  

Mixed:
1. Holy
2. Whitebeard
3. Immortal or TEAM BEER (Really depends if they're drunk or not lol.)

IDev:
1. Silver
2. WaV
3. Amity

Just my guess.  

Posted by contego

Switching it to where it allowed for 3 months of time and then instantly, without notice, allowing for 40 hours to catch up is not a well thought out decision. Not to mention in USA it's Thanksgiving week, and therefore some folks are with family or even possibly going out on the biggest shopping day of the entire year.

To be honest, this is just as silly as players expecting GST to now all of a sudden be hosted every 48 hours.

And to be fair, players have been begging for more frequent tourneys rather then having to wait 3 months for a tourney.

I think Classic staff has a good handle on how to host and imo do a great job with it to where they can successfully host at least once a month.

Having said all that, great job keeping up with the updates, they are all great ideas/updates. This was just a timing mistake imo.

IMO if the GST would be every month, the GST wouldn't be as rare/cool/special/fun as it is now.  

Posted by Agonee

IMO if the GST would be every month, the GST wouldn't be as rare/cool/special/fun as it is now.

Doesn't have to be same concept every month. Rotate out a guild spar event each month or quarter. For many who qualify and attend GST go inactive for approximately 2 months for next GST. Which in my experience means there is a lack of content for the players who are actually participating.  

lezzzz go team silver  

Posted by Kuz

2) Amity- They have 3 ex-winners (Fro, Inco and Crime) on their team. I'm sure these 3 can use their experience of winning GST in the past to mentor the rest of their team and make sure they reach top 3.

Not tryna fire shots or anything, but WTF?  

Update me on who wins, gonna be busy and won't be able to watch it  

Will make predictions when brackets show.  

RD if shiden logs.
Holy  

Mixed
1.Holy
2.neidomu
3.whitebeard or WaV  

Posted by MikvaGraal

Mixed
1.Holy
2.neidomu
3.whitebeard or WaV

WaV!!!!!