RE: ORAS Cup's delay
I first want to apologize on my behalf and on the behalf of the tournament host.
Due to some personal reasons of the tournament host, the next round of ORAS 2v2 Cup, the finals, has not been posted, even as those who were to move on have been decided. I personally was on a leave of absence so I was not aware of this until recently. During this time, one of the tournament players,
pqs, elected to ask to drop out, which would generally not be allowed in these types of tournaments, but considering the delay to playoffs and the seeding already mostly done, such could constitute a special circumstance. I allowed
London13 and
XSTATIC COLD to play their games during this absence as a decision was being made.
While the people who qualify for playoffs are locked, there still remains a possibility of a change in the standings depending on the result of the finals here, and there is currently a 4-way tiebreaker for the 8th seed. With that in mind,
the round will go on with the previous game counting towards the round-robin finals.
I have talked to
pqs, who is willing to continue playing and scheduling after being notified of the aforementioned seeding situation. This decision was made with the discretion of a TD.