How does 3rd place get DQ'd?
We had very strict time constraints. LI Joe and Chris G were completely tied up with other games for the rest of the night and there was no way to finish the tournament Sunday. Kyle was available to play against them and they were DQ'd when we started getting close to the time deadline, so he advanced, but then not available to play later and we were given the curtain call because he absolutely had to finish running the brackets he was in charge of in the main room. It was nearly impossible to run this event and I actually considered just giving everyone their money back once it got to DQing Chris G and LI Joe due to purely to stream standby scenarios.
Also, I think Footwork might not have been DQ'd, I'll have to ask him, might have lost to Kyle. I was exhausted and might have accidentally put that there. Chin DQ'd himself because he had to leave, as did Mike Metroid because he was too busy with other stuff. Dsynnie DQ'd himself after having to face Chris G in his second match hehe. Kazi DQ'd himself due to going home and being a family man.
UMK3 was a total wreck, there were so many other players around that just couldn't play and they knew they wouldn't have time. It probably would have been better to run this as an 8 player bracket but everyone wanted to play.
For anyone who doesn't understand what it's now like running a 2D tournament at the same time as MK9, please talk to NoDoubt as he sat through a very boring, arduous tournament. I like running 2D on Sunday's now even though we get lower turnouts, but I do advertise for Sunday at the same time. We couldn't even do MKII.
Otherwise MK9 ran perfectly smooth when we applied our old methods and reassigned our staff. Most of our staff was the same or former staff, just different jobs.
