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ok that's the signups limit, r1 will be up sometime sunday because I'm busy and there's an awful lot of people to seed
e: someone dropped out, one spot left!
Alright, time to get this show on the road! First of all, big thanks to all of HJADTeddehAkir2xTheTapTaskrLordSTgAntyTJRobert Alfons for helping out with deciding the seeding. Seeds are here and you can see the eventual matchups on a challonge bracket I made. I won't be updating it every match, but I will update it before each new round.
A note on how the seeds were decided: First of all, we mixed both past tournament performance and general evaluations of players. However, up to a certain point it can be difficult to differentiate players. So we created 3 separate groups. The first one was for players we individually seeded at the top of the bracket, while the next two randomized the seed of players considered approximately equal in skill. So if you feel you were seeded too low, it's possible that you were randomly assigned a fairly low seed with a wide margin for change. Anyway, on to round 1!
Remember, this is Single Elimination, Bo3 USUM PU. It does not count for circuit