for the record, i said that you can stay MK if they counterpick YOU there, but then i was told that is incorrect by multiple people. which is funny cause i was probably the only one there who was awake that had any kind of internet access (lol DC). but since multiple people said it, i just accepted it
that sucks, afro.
honestly, the tourney itself all around was just poorly executed by viper. Viper is a good kid dont get me wrong, but i think he was overwhelmed by the tourney itself. I'll take responsibility for the amount of time it took for singles to run, even though i was never originally planned to literally run the tourney, but i knew if i didn't it wouldn't have finished even when it did, but because i ended up running the entire singles tourney, including making pools (with the help of masky, lade, xdeth, dtorr) and making/running bracket that length of time is still my fault.
viper should take this tourney, see what he did wrong and collect it along with the criticism, sit on it for a few months, and wait awhile before hosting the next tourney. The next tourney should also keep in mind the plight/problems of this tourney when making the next one, to guarantee they dont happen again. As a TO, really all you can do is analyze your mistakes and make up for them the next time. Most mistakes in TOing are usually forgiven by the community on a "everybody gets one" type basis. Shining example would be Chibo and the transition between CoT4 and the upcoming CoT5
with that in mind though, the results should still count for any PR related wins. Players knew the ruleset and the terrible stages, but they still came. and because they still came, they were subject to have it count under less than ideal circumstances....this would be true under normal circumstances, but this is a special scenario. There was a clear misunderstanding of the rules between Polt and Afro. Polt only picked rainbow because he thought afro couldnt go MK on a transparent stage even if he was CPed there. Afro thought he could stay MK if he was CPed there. The ACTUAL TO OF THE TOURNEY was nowhere to be found to actually clarify it, so they played under incorrect rules/circumstances.
The sad part is that you cant really just outright say "polt vs afro shouldnt count" and fix it simply, because afro wasn't the only MK who's sets were effected by it. For example, I played xdeth and im pretty sure he would have picked a transparent stage of some sort, but he couldn't. All i had to do was ban frigate and he pretty much had to choose a neutral to get any advantage on my character. Sadly, the only thing you can do is count all of them for the PR and make sure nothing like this happens again in the future