Ok let's try to do the draft at 4 PM tomorrow then.
In terms of premades, the team of Jenzo/jumpluff/TheValkyries/ThePugilist/BLINGAS is obviously allowable, so I'll pencil that in. I'm a little apprehensive about the yohoE/Folgorio/Eo/PttP/bleuwind premade, as that seems a little too strong to me given the player pool, but considering this is mostly for fun I'm inclined to allow it. I'll take opinions from the captains on this though.
I need to get confirmation from
Lavos Spawn Walrein z0m(no g)OG ;_; yohoE LightWolf Starbloom~ (aka the captains whose teams have not already been chosen for certain) that they can be online at 4 PM tomorrow. I'll probably run the draft through a combination of IRC, Skype, and a Google document. Join the channel #circus tomorrow if you can (instructions for how to get on synIRC can be found
here, or at the least PM me with your Skype name. I'm thinking we pick players until we are out, and so will hopefully have at least one sub available on every team.
We will discuss precise format for the tournament tomorrow, but I want to keep it short so I'd like everyone to come either prepared to A. Agree to a
swiss-system style tournament, or B. Propose a better format. I'd like to play either 2 or 3 games each Sunday afternoon starting next Sunday, going for two weekends and then having a best-of-three between the 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th, etc. teams to determine a final ordering. This will take either two or maximum three weekends, taking ~2-3 hours per weekend. I will give a universal time for games, and if a team determines over the course of the week that they cannot make that time for one reason or another it is the captain's responsibility to contact the other team's captain and re-negotiate a time. If a team is 15 minutes late then the opposing team can claim a forfeit; if a match is not started by 25 minutes after the scheduled time then the opposing team is required to either claim a forfeit or attempt to reschedule, so as not to hold up further games played on that day. Please use me as a last resort to resolve differences. Finally, captains will be expected to report all results to me as well as to a google document that I will create...at some point X_X
Let me know if I'm forgetting anything. If you aren't signed up on the spreadsheet by tomorrow at 4 PM, then odds are you won't be drafted. A number of you have signed up in the thread but not on the sheet, and I am not going to track all of you down because we have enough signups in any case. I ask that if you think you cannot make a game on any Sunday that either you raise your concern with me before tomorrow or you remove your signup from the sheet with confirmation posted here.