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Hello everyone, welcome to the playoffs! First off, thanks to everyone who participated during this season, including those who didn’t make the cut. You’re activity was crucial to the success of this league, we all hope to see you around for next season, ready to make a playoff run!
This playoff season is shaping up to be an interesting one, with lots of new and familiar faces. We have former season champ Brandon Cee in the number one seed after a dominant season, as well as former finalists Baron and Black. But their experience will be tested by a fresh crop of talent like SS newcomer and overall RB wunderkind Token, former regular season champs like myself and Malice, and current champ Gwapfather. And let’s not forget about impressive up-and-comers Bongkers, Marv and Vinzr. Everyone here has earned their stripes, and there are no gimme battles anymore. Be ready to bring your A-Game week in and week out, cuz the single-elimination tournament style of the playoffs makes every single match cutthroat. There are lots of dope matchups in store, so I hope you’re all as excited as I am!
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-Just to get these out of the way, due dates are every Saturday at midnight HST. 24 hour extensions will be granted upon opponent approval, but that will be it, no further extensions will be allowed. I ask that you don’t overuse these extensions—they’re meant for extenuating circumstances, not common practice. When everyone uses them week in and week out, it slows down the tournament, so let’s keep it running smoothly and be as punctual as possible.
-New battles will be posted every Wednesday. This gives you 3 days to write, which should be ample time (and that’s coming from someone who generally writes slowly).
-Everyone will be required to give 3 votes each round. For every vote you don’t have, you will be deducted 2 votes from the next round. It’s stern, but it’s fair. You have 3 days of voting, I’m sure you can muster up one vote per day. We need people writing shit worth reading, as well as intelligent votes. You know the drill. Please vote on battles that aren’t being voted on, instead of making a battle go from 7-2 to 8-2.
-There will be a mercy rule at the mods discretion. Generally, if someone falls behind by 5 votes, we’ll close it, but there may be exceptions to it since we want to allow potential comebacks to happen as well.
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