The YWS Cup

Firestarter · 2013-01-01T16:35:53Z

The YWS Cup The Inaugural Critiquing Championship Start: January, 2013 End: To be decided http://i.imgur.com/pF57vl.jpg ENTRY IS NOW CLOSED Open to all. Schedule will be decided based on number of entrants. Knock-out championship. Randomly drawn rounds create a match between two users. Some users may receive byes in the early rounds. A match consists of a week-long reviewing battle. The user with the most reviews at the end of a week wins the match. In the case of a tie, there will be a week-long replay immediately following the end of the match. Because I'm cruel. The later final rounds will consist of month-long battles just to ramp up the tension. The winner receives the adoration of his peers and probably an Amazon voucher of some sort (to be decided) and will be known as the YWS Cup Champion until the next Championship. The runner up will receive a slightly worse prize (to be decided). If nobody enters, I automatically win the YWS Cup. Forever. The picture above is not the finished YWS Cup. Someone with photoshop skills will make it. Please. I am the judge and ultimate arbiter of any disputes about match scores and winners. Further rules and explanations of the schedule will be posted once the number of entrants have been established. 23 Entrants: Rydia Hannah VereenVKS Lauren2010 Elinor Brynn Stella Thomas LouisCypher Audy Griffinkeeper Shadow_Vyper noninjaspresent Alteran Kyllorac Shino Dreamwalker EnchantedPanda ash211 Mush99 PenguinAttack znale1 FermentingFruit zephion guineapiggirl YWS First Round Draw 23 users have entered the cup: Rydia Hannah VereenVKS Lauren2010 Elinor Brynn Stella Thomas LouisCypher Audy Griffinkeeper Shadow_Vyper noninjaspresent Alteran Kyllorac Shino Dreamwalker EnchantedPanda ash211 Mush99 PenguinAttack znale1 FermentingFruit zephion guineapiggirl Due to the uneven numbers, not everybody will have to compete in the First Round. 9 entrants will get a bye to the Second Round. The remaining 14 entrants will enter the First Knockout Round, meaning 7 matches will be drawn. Hence, the 7 victors will join the 9 who received a bye, to comprise the 16 taking part in the Second Round. The draw was randomised using paper and a hat. First Round Byes The lucky nine that sailed through to the Second Round: Shino noninjaspresent Dreamwalker LouisCypher Shadow_Vyper Mush99 Hannah Elinor Brynn VereenVKS Congratulations! You made it through to the Second Round! The First Round Draw Proper Matches 1, 2, 3, and 4 will be played between January 15th, 3 pm, and January 22nd, 3 pm. Matches 5, 6, and 7 will be played between January 22nd, 5 pm, and January 29th, 5 pm. All times are GMT. The winner is the user with the most reviews posted within the time stated. Match 1 StellaThomas versus Kyllorac January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 2 Alteran versus Lauren2010 January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 3 FermentingFruit versus guineapiggirl January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 4 Audy versus ash211 January 15th, 3 pm - January 22nd, 3 pm Match 5 zephion versus Griffinkeeper January 22nd, 5 pm - January 29th, 5 pm Match 6 EnchantedPanda versus znale1 January 22nd, 5 pm - January 29th, 5 pm Match 7 PenguinAttack versus Rydia January 22nd, 5 pm - January 29th, 5 pm

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:00 pm

Caesar says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:00 pm

Yup. You fought bravely though. We were both rather busy xD

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:35 pm

Kale says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:35 pm

o i c wat u did thar.

The 2 at the end amuses me. I may have lost this battle, but I made you work for victory ;P

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:44 pm

PenguinAttack says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:44 pm

Before the end I was busy yachting, you cut my cruise short!

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:45 pm

Firestarter says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:45 pm

I flipped a coin. LouisCypher won.

The 8 people therefore in the draw for the quarter-finals are:

guineapiggirl
Audy
noninjaspresent
Hannah
PenguinAttack
ShadowVyper
Shino
LouisCypher

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:48 pm

zephion says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:48 pm

Well then that's that. Thanks for running this Firestarter, I had a great time.

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:50 pm

Firestarter says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:50 pm

Many thanks for participating, zephion!

And I'm enjoying running it so much, YWS Cup II will probably follow quickly after the conclusion of this one. Hopefully I can convince even more people to participate. I'm envisaging leagues and play-offs and a YWS Superb Owl.

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:58 pm

Firestarter says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:58 pm

I've just done the draw and burst out laughing as soon as one quarter-final was drawn.

You'll all see in a second ...

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:05 pm

Firestarter says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:05 pm

The Quarter-final Draw

Everyone gets a weekend off for their crazy efforts! But we kick-off again next Tuesday. No rest for the wicked.

All matches will be played between Tuesday, February 12th, 1 pm, and Tuesday, February 17th, 1 pm.

All times are GMT.

The winner is the user with the most reviews posted within the time stated. Winners will progress to the semi-finals.

Quarter-final 1

LouisCypher versus Shino

Quarter-final 2

Audy versus guineapiggirl

Quarter-final 3

Hannah versus PenguinAttack

Quarter-final 4

ShadowVyper versus noninjaspresent

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:31 pm

FermentingFruit says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:31 pm

BAHAHAHAHA, One of the Titans shall fall

Save time... see it my way.

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:38 pm

zephion says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:38 pm

Could I start a losers bracket? I think it would be fun to keep going.

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:42 pm

Caesar says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:42 pm

AHAHAHAHAHAHA hahahah ahahahaha. This is going to be REALLY good.

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:42 pm

FermentingFruit says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 4:42 pm

YES. See who the best loser is

Save time... see it my way.

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:17 pm

Shady says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:17 pm

~~Yes! I'm not matched against Hannah or Pengu!~~

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:48 pm

Nate says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:48 pm

Brackets!
http://betterbracketmaker.com/#!/3320088935115

I ignored the entire right half when making that, so pretend that brackets have a pyramid instead of an hourglass shape. Also, to get the bracket to work right, the first round isn't entirely correct for everyone. It lists some people as having byes when they really didn't, and some people were left off.

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The bracket is for reviewing the results of past events and exists purely for entertainment value only! It should not be used as a predictor of potential match-ups.

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Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:53 pm

Firestarter says... · Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:53 pm

Haha, thanks Nate!

I hadn't done a bracket or anything because of the weird way some people have got through and a bunch of people dropped out too!

Also I didn't use them because I'm doing a new draw each round.

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