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Yesterday, we concluded our series of 2x2x2x2 tournaments.
I want to summarize the results from the perspective of both the organizer and a witness to all the races. The registration process was extremely difficult. Honestly, I don’t remember ever struggling this much to find players. In the past, for a similar tournament, we’d get up to 15 teams registered on the first day, with 4-6 more teams signing up as reserve.
Over 50 players participated in the tournament! There could have been more, but some registered teams couldn’t play. As a result, some groups had 4 teams, while others only had 2. In each subsequent round, all groups had 4 teams—two were the winners of their groups from the previous round, and the other two were the teams that placed second. This way, we could create balanced and exciting groups.
Of course, the most intense matches started from the quarterfinals. The team (Pszymek + zee) lost by just 6 points to (Puffy + Kellus). There was a tiebreaker for first place between (DuXR + Confused) and (WiLL + GB + Emery), a narrow 2-point gap between (Honz + Suzuki) and (DeiN + LENZER), and this was only the quarterfinals!
If you recall, the semifinals began with Chilliad maps. Sandking offroad were easier than in the second round, but the motorcycle part was not easy. That’s why I thought this round could favor teams that weren’t the group favorites—anything could happen on these maps. In the first semifinal, (Aroszparo + Mateoryt) lost to (DeiN + LENZER) by just 8 points. In the other semifinal, (DuXR + Confused) faced another tiebreaker, this time fighting (morpp + Gandras) for a spot in the finals. I’m glad this happened in the second semifinal so many players got to watch your battle.
The Final Round In the finals, many spectators predicted (DeiN + LENZER) to win, but they ended up in fourth place. Happy birthday, Wenom The fight for first place was incredible—(January + BTN) and (Honz + Suzuki) were 128 points before the final round. And here, I want to thank morpp—he finished second and prevented a draw! I really didn’t want a tiebreaker for the finals. Thanks dude! I want to thank all the participants who register and played in the tournament!
Huge respect to the players who knew they couldn’t beat the strong favorites but still showed up and gave it them all. With this tournament, I didn't just want to entertain the spectators watching the fails on Chiliad maps—I also wanted to see how active the community could be.
I hope many of you had fun and enjoyed yourselves. See you later, guys!
Tournament Results: 1st - MOTP (Honz + sneezy + namik) – 150 pts
2nd - IHS (BTN + January + Pepsi) – 148 pts
3rd - KAUNAS (morpp + Gandras) – 120 pts
4th - Gonshiki 4estnoy Sudbi (DeiN + LENZER + hills) – 92 pts