Hi Everyone:
First I want to thank everyone who helped me run things. BTZO, Zoap, and Minh/PK NIGHTFIRE did basically as much as me, so be sure to thanks them too. Even if it was just taking care of your pool, it helped out a lot: Thanks to Scamp, Delphiki, Simna, Mike Haze, Zhu, Zelgadis, and KIZZZZZZO. I tried to remember everyone, if I forgot you, you probably didn't do anything important. That is a joke.
I really appreciate all of you that compliment/critique the organization. This was my first time running anything with more than about 40 people. Anything you can say that you think would help TO's in the future is appreciated, and don't be afraid to critique as long as you're informed and realize that running a tourney with 90 people when the room barely fits half that is different than running a 16-man in your garage/livingroom/etc. Scamp came up to me afterwards with a suggestion since he felt the bracket was a bit unbalanced, and I think it's something we are going to implement next time, so we will listen. We alreadly know the room isn't big, so please spare me that.
I thought the stage banning rule that we used for bracket went pretty well, at least it did with everyone I played. It's not even hard unless you're a dunce. It may not be PERFECT but honestly, I think hitting a big RANDOM button is just stupid.
Thanks to Socal/Oregon for coming up/down and making this event the one to attend. If it weren't for you guys, this would have just been another 30-40 man NCB.
Everyone who attended: I hope this was enjoyable for you. I'm sorry I had to continually boot people out of the tourney room, but I hope you understand why. I know it was tough to get a lot of friendlies, but the tourney has to take priority, no johns. If I yelled at you for playing friendlies in the tourney room and thereby ruining your life (you'd think I was from the reaction of some people who I ask to give up their TV for a tourney match, heaven forbid), I'm sorry. I'm still pissed that people would try to sneak friendlies in a tourney of this magnitude in this small of a venue, but I don't like to have to yell at people, because I love all of you.
TC1: I'm sorry about your bracket request thing. I had too many things to worry about to deal with requests, and Zoap answered for me already. I wouldn't have let the other substitution happen either, but it was by Kizzo's request, and this is his venue, so I do what he says :/
I met too many people to do shoutouts.
D!ck sucking Janitors will ride again. Let that be a warning to Zoap and Nemesis and DBR.
Santa Cruz Diner is pretty OK.
Deep Norcal needs to stop being the best crew ever.
Maybe more ****e later.
Kizzo, I believe I'm a Bad Enough Dude to help with all the sheezy at biweeklies.
Now everyone go back to passively/aggressively posting which ranked people you beat or got down to one stock in a friendly, or which tourney matches you "should have won," or making threads stating you have the best X in the USA/CA/your block. If you think I'm referring to you, I probably am. Stop being tools FFS. How hard is it to have some ****ing humility and stop cutting yourselves over how good people think you are at a game.