Since the decision has been ruled now, I can speak up my mind without looking like I'm trying too take something from Canada.
I found the people shocked about a 7 hours delay, for a game impacting directly 3 teams (so more than 30 players), furiously funny. And even funnier now that we consider the following facts :
- It took 10 hours for the TDs to come up with a solution (ie : do nothing)
- 2 teams have been disqualified due to an activity win
- 1 team got qualified due to an activity win
- A captain left his team after 10 days
- A player johned shamelessly
Now the "decision" that you took
M Dragon is probably a decent one given the situation. But you have to know that managing events (among other things) is not about taking bad decisions when there is not good one left, but about preventing unfortunate situations like that to happen. And this is why rules have been established actually.
" I expect all Captains to nag their players to get their battles done if they are being active, and make substitutions as necessary, that is your job."
In the end, we were all aware that something was going wrong with one of the official teams, that was basically a time bomb that exploded in the face of three other teams. Nothing has been done to deal with it, and I'm sorry to point it out, but making sure that every single team is headed correctly is your responsibility.
" I will NOT accept inactivity. I don't want people sitting around, I want people being proactive."
I see. (I could also go on about that pseudo-rule forcing people to play at least one game during the first week)
Let's even assume that Afrabs couldn't sub in anyone a couple of hours before the deadline. Why did you not force them to take measures
BEFORE (I believe that letting Afrabs replace the members that tried to ruin the team was tolerable, I hate the idea that a single member can spoil the fun and the chances of all his mates)? Why do you let a player
blatantly john given the stakes ? How can he avoid two wcop games, but play for the R2 of "The Choice"
the day before the deadline of his wcop games ? And he fucking liked Afterburn's post
on Sunday, while Funk is supposedly waiting for him somewhere at the same time ? What the fuck lmfao.
And above all,
why isn't he punished (and his irresponsible captain aswell) in some way for that ? Does this mean that we can freely break rules, and give away wins like it's Christmas day with a little letter
"Hey your opponent decided to not give a fuck about this tournament anymore, lucky you". That sounds nice, and I guess that France will soon receive its
"Too bad, your opponent got sub'd in 3 days before the deadline and didn't decide to john, enjoy your last turn Scald burn instead !" letter (yo sorry
afterburn , I'm not calling you out, I simply would have loved it if every single member of your team would have acted the same as you or
Subject 18 for instance and I have a huge respect for the members of Afrabs who stood up to fight under the circumstances).
I can't help but think that this is unfair, that you sure dealt with this first round poorly and didn't do much to respect any of the rules you set yourself (and you know that I don't hold any personal grudge against you). And since you felt like giving the last blow to my team that got its share of shitty events for the week, I feel like someone has to point out the organisation failure.
Now, because I don't necessarily enjoy criticizing things (you may doubt that) without contributing to their improvement, here is a spreadsheet, following peng idea, on how the round 1 should be organized :
tAp1 = Team A player 1
So yea, it only work for XY groups, as you can't balance it perfectly with old gens only counting 12 groups (so the number of games to be played does not match with the number of opposing teams). It is not easily fixable, so the only solution I have to offer is to balance it by crossing the games through the years (the first year, team A meets teams B, C and D in BW + teams E, F and G in DPP etc. and then next time, they meet different teams). It would be balanced even every 5 years -if you see what I mean-. It's not perfect, but thats the only possible attempt to make the pairings more "fair".
tl;dr : you should have seen it coming from someone whose account name is Felony.