Sarah wanted to host a tournament between past/present Alumni members, so we set up a bracket of 16: http://challonge.com/alumni2016



It'll be on on Saturday, December 17th @ 3pm EST in Sarah's guild house. Everyone will show up and we'll run through the bracket just like the GST.
James should be streaming it on his Twitch channel, and Zetectic sent me a PM so he might be around to make edits for YouTube.

Winner will get €100 in iTunes, generously offered by Sarah. We're also going to have a bracket predictions contest, sort of like a March Madness thing. I don't have too many ideas for a prize yet, but right now I'm willing to give 10 Christmas gifts to whoever wins. We'll probably come up with something more, but for now just consider it to be for bragging rights.

You can fill out a bracket here: http://challonge.com/tournaments/303...redictions/new
You can see all of the submitted brackets here: http://challonge.com/alumni2016/predictions
You don't need an account to create a bracket, but you might need one to edit your picks after you've submitted. You can create an account here: https://challonge.com/users/new

I'll update the bracket live as the tournament progresses. Scoring is pretty simple:

• 1 point for a correct first round prediction
• 2 points for a correct second round prediction
• 4 points for a correct semifinals prediction
• 8 points for a correct finals prediction

You don't have to predict a score, just the winner of the match. Put your name in the bracket's title and/or post a link to your bracket here if you want to enter the contest. You don't have to. If two people pick the exact same bracket and it ends up having the highest score, we'll just give the win to the person who submitted their bracket first. It's a small tournament, so there will probably be duplicate brackets.

This is supposed to just be a fun holiday thing for Alumni, but we're trying to get others involved and maybe show staff that there's interest in an official singles tournament. Thanks in advance to anyone who shows up to watch and to Sarah for the idea and prize offering.  

That Challonge prediction thing is awesome. Never knew that kind of system existed.

I will, if you allow, record along with James. I can't do any fancy stuff like James does, but I'll try this damage done/received thing on the video. It'll be manual edits though lol.  

Wait So You Are Including All Past And Present Members Of Alumni But Why Not The Future Ones?

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Posted by Thallen

Zetectic sent me a PM so he might be around to make edits for YouTube.

God help us all

 

Avenging TEAM BEER, making the run of my life  

Posted by James205

God help us all

I laughed so hard  

http://challonge.com/tournaments/alu...f0723c913352cc

I'm saying Dante takes it, coming around to beat Thallen in his challonge hosted tournament after suffering a defeat in his own. He'll defeat David in the finals... Predicting a few upsets(Blaze advances past Shaheen, RM takes out brett).  

http://challonge.com/tournaments/alu...2e723c9170c51d

My predictions  

Predictions since I'm (ironically) too lazy to link it:

Round 1 Winners:
Thallen, Abood, Alexx, Dante, David, Skull, Shaheen, Brett

Round 2 Winners:
Thallen, Dante, David, Brett

Round 3 Winners:
Thallen, Brett

Round 4 Winner:
Brett

Gets hard in round 3 for obvious reasons...

I was asked by a few if I'll commentate with James so: likely not as I'll be on vacation with slow internet and I'm pretty sure I'm going to a concert on that date/time. If I can be around I will be though.  

Pretty cool , hopefully if it goes well maybe it'll open up the possibility of Admin hosted single spar tournaments just so give us something else than gst during the season  

Overall, I think mine is statistically safe on who reliably performs, so if there is a major upset I'm doomed aha

http://challonge.com/tournaments/303...ns/103837/edit  

There's gonna be some xmas g4g lags considering that it's being hosted on 17th.  

Haze wins the entire thing calling it now  

Winner gets alumni leadership, raise the stakes  

Thallen to win