An Unofficial AWBW Tournament

Greetings ladies and germs. Welcome to the Summer 2016 Advance Wars by Web tournament extravaganza, pitting the most skilled players from around the universe against each other in a breathtaking test of strategy and skill. At least, that's how I envisoned it in my head. Results may vary.
This tournament mainly features a mix of new maps with some oldies thrown in. If you have a map in mind, feel free to suggest it, although ultimately the final say on them will be up to the discretion of the Map Committee. There'll be a randomized bracket with several rounds, culminating in a final match between two semifinalists where the winner will be crowned Supreme Leader of the World. Included is a match for 3rd place between semifinal losers. If you got completely rekt lose, you're a loser and are treated as such, meaning you're out of the tournament. If you win, naturally you proceed onto the next round against the other winner in your bracket. Inactivity will still be monitored despite the busted boot system; if a player hasn't completed their turn by 3 days, they will be forfeited and will lose the match, resulting in an automatic victory for the other player. If you don't think you can make a move at least once every 3 days, try to not join the tourney.

The following are just some of the maps I've looked at and thought were eligible for the tourney. Most of these haven't gotten a whole lot of recent play in general already so it'll be muy fun.

~Werewolves- (by ahanzhe1)
Colour TV (by RBFenn)
Elstar (by Wareagle 3)
Locked and Loaded (by Everdan)
Stolen Moments (by Bamboozle)
Credens Justitiam (by mori8)
maps_id=63876 (by Xmo5)
bridges don't make a good map (by blackmap)

Participants:

liandry
Airwalker
BobCW
Naegleria
AdvancedSlug
ichbinsehselber
Nyvelion
Everdan
Xmo5
webbs62
Dreadnought
Efil4zagginjj
steadystate
Castanietzsche
fingolfinsleftnut
TRANLord
napolean
a9977321
lvjd1828
the-deadly-shadow
lavagainer
Bamboozle

Bracket:

This is the tournament bracket and where I'll be officially tracking who's proceeding to the next round.

The following maps are what has been decided for the tourney. All games will be normal weather, normal funds, with High Tier bans.

Round 1, Matches 1-6, will be taking place on Credens Justitiam.
Round 2, Matches 7-14, will be taking place on Locked and Loaded.
Round 3, Matches 15-18, will be taking place on maps_id=63876.
Round 4, Semifinals, will be taking place on Stolen Moments.
Bronze Match for 3rd Place will be taking place on Border Patrol.
Round 5, Finals, will be taking place on Shangri-La.

Round 1 completion update. Congratulations to lavagainer, lvjd1828, Everdan, liandry and BobCW for making it past the first round. Round 2 has subsequently been started and those who didn't join after the ample 2~ or so weeks they had have been forfeited, making liandry advance to Round 3.

Edit: For posterity, Naegleria came back and I decided to redo Game 9.

Kinda joined by accident due to my own lack of clarity earlier, and haven't really had time in at least a month to actually try hard at AWBW, but will at least put in some effort since I'm in this apparently. If no-vowels guy wants to stay on vacation until about November or December, by then I'll have more time and I can actually try and maybe win this thing.

Yo dawg, u trynna update dat bracket er nah?

Ye my bad, was busy for a few days and didn't anticipate it.

lvjd1828 hasn't logged onto the site since last month so I figured it was safe enough to boot him from the tournament. Congrats to Xmo5, liandry, me , Everdan, Nyvelion, the-deadly-shadow and Castanietzsche so far for winning their games. Game 9 between Naegleria and a9977321 is still underway; depending on how long it takes, I'll set up Round 3 matches either during or after the duration of their game.

Here's the current bracket, also visible from www.challonge.com/awbw2016

Hey, I couldn't help but give you a hard time. Us slackers always gotta look for someone else to point the finger at, lest someone catch us slacking

It will take some days before we deal with game 9

I received the email that the match is over, but it remains to be checked.

OK I won against Naegeria. However, the tournament seemes to be paused in the previous months....
I dunno what happened.

motivation is apparently fluctuating. Hope it will get a high again....