I should also add that after the first tournament, seeds will be assigned and this seeding will be used for the next tournament, to help increase chances that the best players meet towards the end of the tournament and not the beginning (like the Final Four, Wimbledon, etc).

This is why I've now made it regional.  When someone is from the Americas and playing someone from Europe (for example) it is difficult to do any day except the weekend unless neither have jobs.  The people that were active in the last tournament were also being active in the discussions.  Around half of the people didn't seem to be active at all.  Now that we have regional ones starting this Friday, I'll let them run their course no matter what happens.  It's not really that big of a deal as I see it as only 3 games were played so far.

You can't do things like transfer games automatically.  You were also one of the ones asking to make it a regional tournament!  The tournament had only just started and I did say it was a bit of an experiment.  We learned that it wasn't working great as a global tournament, so we've moved on.  I'm sorry if that's an issue for people.  You had a good match and the tournament is just for fun (not prizes or anything), so just look forward to your next match in the next tournament. 

I appreciate you hosting the tourney but I think book and cilver stated valid points. The tourney was ended prematurely and without consultation of the people participating in it. I do feel a little robbed out of my hard won victory against mr book. Its inevitable that there will be time differences but people can make it work and if they don't its obvious that they shouldn't be participating in it. Theres many randoms who have signed up for the tourney who aren't regulars online, this is a clear indication. Your advertising efforts should be focused on the regular online community and less in forums. Also, I mentioned something about the bracketing on the tourney disccusion, it seems like it needs some fixing.

-Krusher-

We all appreciate the work you are doing Slow, but in the future please allow participants to voice their opinion before you do something like this.   You've been great about that up to this one instance, some of us are just frustrated that the tourney disappeared so suddenly.  We'd all like to see this thing grow but to do that it needs stability or people just won't join future ones, fearing it's going to just disappear again.

is there a way to merge the brackets together from western (usa, canada, n. s. america) to eastern (china, eurasia) so that way we can easily keep track of how the players are doing on the other side of the world. also set up an event to have both sides agree on a match of say maybe 2 3 4 or 5 best of both side players to collide and have a group tourney

Americas up to 14 already!  Europe only at 4... where's the Europeans!?!?

Lets do a globe tourney. Teams will be 5s. 3 teams. Round Robin. 1 pro, 2 medium, 1 noob/erratic