Hey, Jlo, how exactly did that work? I don't see how they could stop you guys from getting into pools that way. But i don't really understand how pools work, so feel free to explain in painstaking detail
um well i'll try to explain the best i can, from what i understand, these circuit events are supposed to be seeded first by circuit points, and then by region, and then by skill, so basically first off, all the players who went to NO KOAST and got circuit points, (me, blank, joker) were not even supposed to be in pools, we were supposed to be sent on to the brackets, secondly, the pools were supposed to be divided by region, there were 7 pools, and 7 iowan participants, therefor it SHOULD have had 1 iowan participant in each pool, instead, there were pools with multiple people from the same state like us from iowa and also missouri got screwed here as well, and then after that it should have been divided up by skill, meaning basically each of the top players should have realistically been seperated in pools, and i know this step can be hard to do sometimes, but in wisconsin there were pools that were pretty rediculous, like my pool which was, me, blank, hunger, scythe, jordan and a couple other of really good players i can't think of their names now tho, and then there was jokers pool which was joker, razor, nichole, rofa, and maybe a few other good players im not sure of the rest, but then these pools were offset by asc's pool which consisted of him and cbk being the only good players in those pools, asc went 12-0 in his pool and cbk only lost to him, so there were some really undeserving people that got into the brackets from some of the "less competetive" pools.
so basically all of the commotion could have easily been avoided if they would have just followed circuit rules like they were supposed to have done, instead there were alot of deserving players not getting into brackets, and alot of not-so-deserving players getting higher seeds than they should have.
ALSO, being as there wasn't even 64 people there, they didn't even NEED to eliminate people from pools, they could have easily just used them to seed people to determine the brackets, instead they cut it down to a 32 man bracket and alot of people actually left and didn't show up for doubles because of this.