Radium88
Smash Lord
I think the same efficacy has been duplicated with the usual doubles before pools pattern, though. The only plus side for pools first is the higher probability that AM could be administered earlier but in reality, it will still coincide with Singles. But seeing as there was a tv limitation, I don't see how it would be a problem in either cases. Doubles before pools gives the opportunity for players in that bracket to keep going with the matches, especially since pools were split. It was pretty efficient because the first half of the pools were being entered into the computer and 1/2 of whom were top three were figured out already.Biggest issue was starting singles before doubles was finished. Doubles was put on one setup when three matches could be played simultaneously. If they had waited for one more round of matches, we'd have been able to have losers finals and then winners finals and been done. But since there were five matches left on one station, it resulted in an artificial bottleneck. This became much worse when someone told people to play their singles matches, resulting in every match being delayed for an entire singles set to finish. On top of all this, Kel and I were called to play MJG and Kain when we were supposed to be playing someone else and played the first two games of the set before the other team came up to play us.
TL;DR, don't tell people in doubles to play singles while doubles is going on, reserve setups for doubles that = the exact amount of matches that can be played at the same time. Profit.
The amateur bracket I thought was a really good idea.
I didn't like singles pools before doubles, but it did run better on time I guess.
The comment about doubles being left on one tv was due to putting a priority for livestream over getting **** done. Just pick one match for the livestream and the rest should just play it out. Put the others on a recording station instead.
TBH, it was just a lack of authority. Players have to play their matches and if they need a break, put another match on the set-up and if there are no more matches, put a time limit on that break. Players should have a bit more responsibility as well, if they are going somewhere, a TO MUST be told so that TOs aren't going around looking for them and asking people to text them to come back and also things can be determined if they have time to go somewhere for more than a minute. But if that isn't the case, then sucks for the player's lack of responsibility and their absence just needs to be timed.
Edit: And I'm not pointing fingers because I've definitely am guilty of the lack of authority; it's just what is apparent at most tournaments.