Let's just pull a name out of a hat and have Stardock give that team $500.  That would be no different then carrying on with the tournament if we were disqualified and you won. 

God these are the times I really fucking hate you shane. You wouldn't play if the tables were turned and you lost orcun and had to play with a shitty pug teammate. I would be glad to beat the shit out of you and renz if you had shit third any day of the week.

Its really easy to talk shit when your the team without a pug you putz.

Lol actually that's incorrect, I'd be disappointed but I'm not going to cry about it and not play at all.  If we had lost Orcun it would  likely be Koush or Magnus coming back so if you were able to "beat the shit" out of Renz and I with whoever our third was I'd definitely congratulate you. 

Edit-> This was to cow, didn't expect someone to sneak a post in before I clicked send

Suggestion.. (not sure if this has been raised already)

I know this was a 3v3 tourney but if you are missing players and both teams agree can't you just play a 2v2 to finish these games up? Then no team requires a "shit" pug...

I will now duck for cover whilst the abuse flies my way.

I miss your tb teseer

nah I don't take offense lol...I just thought the wording was funny.

It was just a suggestion as then the familiarity stays with the team. As you say is very important and seems as though there is an emphasis for it to be over.

no - you aren't screwed zen.  Anyway, I confirm that zen was in channel at the appointed time and he indicated that his team was ready to play. 

We started this tourney about 3 months ago and the way it was planned, " 2 forced matches per week" it was supposed to be over quite a while ago. We as a team played the most matches for the tourney, was almost always available for matches, never rejected any game offer and never backed out after scheduling for a match and we played well over twice a week until there was no team left to play.

So we played it by the rules but things didn't go organized which happens and OTHER teams couldn't get their games in and the tourney seemed to be going longer. So i mentioned that i am leaving on around 20th of December quite a while ago ( If the teams would have went on playing at least 1 match every week by the time i mentioned we would still be over with the tourney).

Yes, neither the World nor the tourney definitely doesn't revolve around me but the thing is the Tournament should have been over long ago and that would have been the case if other teams have been as loyal as us to the scheduling. 

So Zen_ God, sorry but i don't see any logical reason for you to propose for Shane and Renz needing to look for an alternate under the circumstances. It is ridiculous, to say the least to be honest.

So Tourney is supposed to last a certain time period given the fact that there was a forced rule for teams to play. So team A plays all their games, finishes them on the right time and on top of it manages to win more games than any other team with higher win ratio and has won the majority of their games against the remaining teams in the finals. Then at the last quarter of the toruney, team B,C,D doesn't schedule their games in the pre-given time(once again not due to date i am leaving but what was talked way before) due to whatever reason and when team A can't no longer play, they(whoever) say ok we can do the finals after team A can't play any longer.

Although Shane is right in every way asking people to finish the tourney before i leave. I agree that DQ'ing people or playing with alternates is no way to end the tourney. I joined the tourney to get good games and luckily i got what i was looking for to some extend. I really don't care how the money is distributed or if i get any money.

So yeah, if you guys want to carry over the money and make a new tourney with it afterwards it's all good. If it's after i get back,which will be around 20th of January, i'll gladly join again to play some good games. If the next tourney held before i get back, then good luck to all teams and i hope it will be a good one. If you guys want to do the finals after i get back, that's completely fine for me as well. If you guys wanna play the finals of this particular tourney without me forcing my team to find an alternate, that is some....bullshit.

I don't want to play against any team with an alternate on either side because it is just against the idea why i joined the tourney.

My point is, there is absolutely no logical point for Shane or my team to be blamed or penalized for the current situation. 

It's just as ridicoulous to say: hey zengod you have two days to schedule a match or you get disqualified. We don't care you have finals, just find an alternate. I've been trying just as hard as your team, orcun to schedule our matches. 4 out of 5 times now pacov's team did not show up, and my team almost got penalized for that because I am not in the decision making panel to vote for the deadline. Following all that nonsense I turned around to shane that he would have the same issue if I could vote to schedule the games when you are not around orcun. That's all.

I think we are all in agreement in holding off now and coming up with a new plan.  I certainly apologize for my part in amping up the pressure to wrap things up.  I think cooler heads have prevailed, etc.  We'll sort this out and our demigod lives shall surely move on.

Its soon to be about time to talk about how we are doing our next tourney. 

let's get back to the what do we do moving forward topic. 

heh - balls to you, sir.  gimme a break... I dreamt that people could competently arrange for 6 people on earth to magically log on to the internet at the same time. 

My mistake... but still... live and learn, i guess.

It did work fine for the 2v2 tourney. That got finished in a week or two, it seemed like. The only teams that dropped out were the ones that simply weren't serious. 

Anyway, I think late Jan would be a good target for the next tourney? One that only takes one weekend? (two if a bunch of teams signup).