Winter World Cup WINNER - poweewee (Philippines)

[awpertunity]

Well it seems that general consensus (consensus of 4 people anyway) would prefer top 2 of each group to advance, which I understand and I definitely wanted originally. As GG pointed out the reason I didn't do option 2 in the end is exactly what he said there.

A big motivator for everything I decided in the end was the issue of time, we wanted this tournament done by late May. I'll see if I can think of a good way to incorporate top 2 of each group though... What I'm scared of with the 32-person bracket is really the time issue. When it gets to that point the games take a lot longer for two reasons. Firstly because the games are a lot tougher, but also secondly the games are worth a lot more, so people take more time to make their moves. Consider the Super-Duper-Titan Tournament, this was a 16 person tournament that started God knows when and it's still in its second round. This cannot happen with this tournament.