Winter World Cup WINNER - poweewee (Philippines)

[amoffett11]

As stated on the rules page: "The tournament officially starts February 1st".

Technically speaking, people are raising concerns over only 1 advancing before the tournament was meant to begin. I know a lot of people were caught off guard by the start of this thing, people who weren't aware the tournament had begun were being challenged to matches and the thing just took off. I imagine that people who signed up for this long ago before the rules were finalized didn't have a chance to see the final rules before matches had begun. For this reason I don't think that the "tournament has started therefore no rule changes" argument really holds a candle.

Sitting in 2nd in my pool, I'm coming from a biased position (but then again so is everyone in this discussion) but I can't help but think that if we only allow one person from each group, aren't we just having a tournament of the same people over and over? The ST's will advance and face each other as usual, and everyone else has to go home. If you allow 2 from each group, you get more a little more unpredictability and more fun for more involved.