Okay, here’s what we have so far, these players will have byes for sure and I’ll divide them up for brackets:
Top 6 from No tech Tourney (Func and Uberlager were in top 8 but not playing in this) in no particular order:
Lynxes
Telamon
DY
Zygmund
Bigbadgoo
DutchmanD
And these players will be playing in the Play-in Round for sure, in no particular order:
DarthMaximus
SgtBlitz
Omega
Todd7912
HannibalSW
Apollo
With the exception of myself the other 5 have not played a PBEM so they fall into the most likely to no show category. However, with the exception of Apollo all have posted multiple times and have been active within the past day or two. Apollo only has 1 post (sign-up) and hasn’t logged in since a couple days after he signed up, so that could be a potentional no-show.
So excluding the “bye” people I’ll do a draw on Friday (or this weekend) for us 6 play-in players out of the available 26 and then we’ll have 6 play-in games to get us to 32 for rd 2.
I believe it will work out so that these 6 winners will play the Top 6 in the rd of 32. Everyone else will be free to start their rd 2 games while we play the play-in games. I think we’ll be able to catch up time as we progress through the tourney.