wait... there are only 19 pairings? how on earth does this tournament proceed from here? pair up 8 and give someone a bye? then you've got nine, so pair up four and give someone else a bye...?
Valmanway
even if they're not "keeping up to date" despite not actually being given an alert from your tags in the previous thread, you are going to have to pick winners from those pairings by activity from their VM walls or with a coinflip if no activity is shown / there is an even amount of activity. you can't decide that people who don't respond are ejected, especially if some actually went through and contacted opps to no response.
on top of that, even if people aren't actively checking the round 1 thread (as is unfortunately to be expected from Type B and C tournaments where people have to get off their lazy asses and build teams), someone from the pairing needs to go on if only to preserve an even amount of people in future rounds and make sure the tournament runs smoothly.
i mean, i was given the win by my opponent... and just because i neglected to read the Round 1 thread after being given the win is definitely not a reason to be disqualified haha