I'm sorry for the double post, but this is relevant enough for me to risk the infraction.
I urge you guys not to count the Fort Worth Classic tournament towards the power rankings. I'll elaborate more later and edit this post with additional info, but because I'm on my phone I don't want to post a super long winded-post about it right now.
Update:
This was probably the worst tournament I've been to. There were a number of issues that ended up causing a lot of drama during the course of the event and caused a lot of heated argument while we were there. The ruleset was not clearly defined and a player who was playing within the guidelines of the rules was forced to give up multiple stocks because the TO had not clearly defined the stalling rule.
d4ba was playing Denti in game 3 of their match in winner's semifinals. They were at comparable percentages (Denti had about a 30% lead, they were both in the mid hundreds and within kill percents of each other) and d4ba managed to get the first kill. There was no clearly defined ledge grab limit and d4ba began planking the left ledge of Yoshi's Island. He spent roughly 2.5 minutes doing then when I called the TO over to point out why a ledge grab limit is needed. The TO took it upon himself at this point to tell d4ba to forfeit his stock. He did and as the game continued the situation was repeated and he was forced to forfeit a second stock. After the end of the match we all determined that the best course of action was to have the players go to a 1 stock, 3 minute match to determine the winner. Denti ended up winning the game and the set.
This situation was completely unfair to either player. Damien was forced to forfeit a stock when he was playing within the guidelines of the rules, but his abuse of planking could easily fall under the stalling rule. This was not clearly defined and caused a lot of drama for the next couple of hours. This set is my main reason for suggesting that this tournament not be counted in the PR, because the rules were not clearly defined and the TO chose to punish a player who was playing within the rules of the tournament.
In addition to this, the TO had to return people's money because he cancelled the doubles event and other side events after everyone had paid their way in, resulting in this basically being just a singles tournament. The TO also did seeding based on location rather than skill level; completely disregarding this PR in the first place. Overall this tournament was pretty much a failure and more than one participant expressed to me that they would not be attending another.
I did discuss this briefly with a few of the other players after the tournament was over and the general consensus was that it wouldn't really bother anyone if this was counted towards the PR; so this is simply my opinion and only my opinion at this time. I just wouldn't feel right if this was counted because of all the bull**** that happened while we were there.
