[BlackSolider]

Grats deo.

@ Kia345

Night (our boss) has been doing it for a long time. I don't know if he started it or picked it up from somewhere. I joined GC back in 07 and its always been like that.

The reasoning, I believe, is that classic can regularly get 16 players for a spar tournament. Using a bracket style, we'd have to get 32 people. This simply won't happen on classic. We barely get a playercount of 32, muchless 32 people willing and able to spar.

How are are we going to get 16 people for a tournament? We certainly can't take the first 16 pms. We certainly can't take the first 16 people to the tournament area. Thus the idea of "qualifying rounds" makes sense. A total of 8 "location spars", as in first two to spar arena X get a shot, and 8 "summon spars", as in first two to pm the GC get a shot, make for a fairly even distribution. The people not native to classic can still theoretically get a shot if they pm the gc, since they might not know the locations.

If you can think of a better system, do post it. The qualifiers work pretty well, and aren't usually a problem.

(remember this is all my understanding, so there is a chance it isnt factual. small chance however)