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Originally posted by lumisa:
**i´ve heard rumors that shoes has won this tournament!
congratulations shoes!!!! well done. and this time (rumors again) even ryoko played - winning without having any practice is quite amazing!! i wish i could have been there.
more rumors say that none of the australiens for whom this tourney has been timed showed up!? shame on them!!
(i have to rely on the rumors here because i can´t find the thread with the results or the award ceremony... ;))
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::nods::
I was waiting for an official results page too before commenting, however I should confirm your rumours for you - they are all correct, though you could find that out by checking the score table ^_^. Fyrephin did an outstanding job with Hyko-san's help organising an alternative 'tracker', but I think it was the tracker issues which stopped people playing - or even realising that the tournament was happening. So I would not call 'shame' on our Australian peers, but rather on Ambrosia for once again failing to have the tracker working.
Do we have a UBB code for this? ^~
(rant)
Tracker problems seem to be something of a tedious regularity during the past tournaments I have participated in (though I admit I have missed several, which were probably fine). -- I must add that my admittedly very untutored (concerning IT) mind fails to understand why when they can keep a complicated web server running including sales and bulletin board systems, and yet seem unable to keep what should (I would have thought) be a relatively simple game tracker running correctly. o_O; The regularity of the outage, and the length of time it takes to be fixed smacks to me of nothing short of rampant apathy. While I am sure that is not the case, it would be nice if that was not the impression that was given.
(/rant)
It was a shame we did not get to play a second round as I was looking forward to a few more games - once I had finally sorted out my AIM woes (gomen, I am useless, I know), and hence had the game running smoothly (without crashing) it was mostly all over Ź_Ź. We needed more players! ^^; ... Okay, and I was hoping to have a chance to redeem myself against SHOES-kun as well. ^~
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