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The mGG SENA Trials qualifier #1 was held on the weekend Brackets and Thread. This was mGG's largest tournament to date and our first pro-level tournament completely organised by us. For the most part, we are happy with how things turned out, but there were some obvious disappointments which we aim to fix for the future.

• Delayed Start:
  Caused mostly by a significant number of people signing up with names different from their in-game name and to a lesser extent with the stupid way that the names on a channel will reorder themselves as people come and go. It was suggested that if people can't sign up correctly they shouldn't be playing. Whilst I personally agree, it also would have resulted in a significant number of people not being able to play and taking their anger out on mGG in the forums. So delaying the start until we could get things sorted was the lesser of two evils. For qualifier #2 we will revert to the standard challonge self-signup system and people will simply have to deal with the 20 walk-overs at the start of the bracket.
• Bracket Seeding:
  Seeding was performed using the top 32 SEA power ranks (12 of the sign ups) with the rest being given double randomised seeds. As a reasonable number of talented players do not appear on the power ranks list, this lead to having a number of early team kills (most notebly Nv, but they were also the only team to have >2 people playing). In order to avoid this in future, we will be looking at having a much larger seed list. Unfortunetely, there is no completely objective way to perform this for players that are not on the power ranks lists - which will probably result in a lot of drama and whingeing. Suggestions are welcome.
• Single elimination fomat:
  We thought initially that BO3 from RO32 would have been sufficient to ensure that the best players were getting through, however, we underestimated the depth of those signing up. If a good number of people indicate their interest for a double elim format in the next qualifier, then we will use that.

Despite these issues, we think the rest of the day went off as expected and things ended up finishing approximately on schedule. Hopefully anyone who was grossly affected by the issues that did occur won't hesitate to sign up for the next qualifier on May 11th.

REPLAYS for casting and uploading
We'd also like to send out a call for replays that want to be casted and placed on Duckville's Youtube channel. In particular Glade vs Deth and Glade vs Rossi. We tried to cast them but Glade was lagging out when casters were present. Also any other games you think were entertaining but didn't make it on the stream. Rival vs Fenner and MightKiwi for example.

Reaplys can be sent to mggsc2 at h-o-t-m-a-i-l-com