Outwitters WORLD CUP Winner - Alvendor (SWEDEN)

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Once the FTA fix is implemented (likely before the next tournament/world cup), the World Cup format should be fine.

Two things though:

1. Who goes first shouldn't matter. In the elimination stages we should have players play more games. Just an example, but something like RO16: BO3, RO8: BO3, RO4: BO3, Semi: BO5, Final: BO7. This would make the winner really have to work for the victory instead of just getting a lucky win over a better player (and this is kind of like how GSL does it which is the most prestigious tournament in SC2).

2. People lose interest in tournaments in the later stages... which is the opposite of how it should be. This is likely due to the fact that Outwitters isn't a 'spectator sport'. You can only watch the games when someone eventually uploads a replay after the fact. In the mean time there's no use commenting on the thread. =/

Especially if we make players play more games in elimination round (as I'm suggesting for future tournaments) this will be even more the case as the thread gets buried due to lack of people commenting for a longer period of time. We should sticky this and future major tournaments to help bring up the hype and make it easy to check the standings. Having a strong competitive scene would really help Outwitters in the long run by retaining old players and may attract new players too. Actually, a lot of games like this have a subforum for tournaments so if OML doesn't want to clutter the stickied threads section they can make a tournament sub-forum.