Let me start out by saying I am not at all pleased with the way this all turned out just like everyone else, but I do appreciate those of you who were understanding and helpful to me and not counterproductive. This was several players first tournament and despite all the things that happened they did come up to me and say that they enjoyed themselves despite it all.
For those of you who were not here or were not in the midst of the problems, what happened was my parents wanted everyone out by 12 and I knew this ahead of time. Last time I ran this tournament we had about half as many entrants and 2-3 more setups. I finished at 11:30 and everyone was very satisfied with it all, especially since it was the first NC tournament with stage striking iirc.
This time around we had about 40 total players with b+ singles running 27 entrants and brawl singles running 28. There were only 4 b+ setups and 5 brawl setups, which was definitely a serious damper on progress, and I also had a hard time getting players to do their matches.
Brawl+ didnt finish until...6 or 7? Brawl got started about 8 and during the break I discussed with several players the possibility of dropping an event. Everyone decided that they could buckle down and make sure all the TVs were being used for a match and try to get through it, playing all matches 2/3 including finals.
By 10pm it was evident we weren't going to finish singles, but by making doubles a priority we could get through, which we did. There were about a handful of people left in the singles bracket so we opted to give everyone still in loser's their entry fee back, and split the remaining amount between the 3 players still in winners.
We obviously weren't going to finish on time so people stopped playing their matches and when there was debates about what to take care of first the TO was no-where to be find.
Im really not sure what all happened with this, but I was playing my doubles matches and I'm sure you could have found me if you wanted to...its not like it was a large room.
This was one of the only singles tournament where dub actually entered and other players which would be new to the pr's were shacking things up and instead of us coming out with some results, we where left with 7 or so players still in the tourney and therefor no results to speak of.
There were several upsets and I have spoken to PP and when I posts the brackets those sets will be taken into consideration for the next PRs.
Omni if you have to set such a stringent time limit on your tournaments thats fine but don't expect to be able to get done when you advertised enough that the tournament was relatively large and then were so disorganized that there was no way it would have finished before 3 and we didn't even do 3 out of 5 finals.
Obviously there were some mistakes made in the organization, and there were less setups than anticipated as well as more players than anticipated. Next time things will definitely need to change in order to make sure everything fits in.
Please get in contact with me if you would like the advice because I fear that tournaments like these make people not want to attend again, i know it did that for me.
I will definitely be looking for ideas on how to make sure things run more smoothly next time, I have a few ideas of my own but all positive/helpful input would be appreciated.
Oh and I almost forgot david (tho) was put in the losers bracket for no reason other than you didn't know what was going on and instead of talking to him to figure out his plans you just gave him a lose, effectively ruining the losers bracket since to be honest david is probably the best brawl+ player in the state.
I don't think you have the correct story here. David told me he was leaving and that he was going to forfeit his matches so I did that, he then returned and said it turns out he didnt need to leave, but by that time it was too late for him to stay in winner's bracket. He did resume in loser's until he lost though. I'm sorry that it turned out that way but when I talked to to David he didn't take any issue with it.
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