2020 World Championship Heat Information

[TacoBill]

Thank you everyone for submitting your heat preferences and for your patience. We did reach 100 players after accepting a couple late entries, so each heat will have either 24 or 26 players so as not to create byes. We were able to get about 85% of you your first choice of heat, and made sure those who didn't got their second choice. A reminder to some people (Samuel Stearns, Mike D'amboise, and Mason Gilligan) that we still need your Gemp User names to set up the leagues. All other Gemp User names can be found in the Registration thread if you would like to know someone's Gemp name.

Remember, all decklists will be due by Thursday, December 3rd at 11:59pm PST.

Saturday 4am EST: HEAT #1: Your tournament director will be EuroEmperor Tamas Papp (Yoda007).

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Bastian Winkelhaus
Tom Kelly
Darren Malins
Timo Dusel
Matthew Lutz
Paul Myers
Grady Hutchins
Rikard Eriksen
Miguel Tarin
Sean Mackin
Justin Branch
Kendall Halman
Bjorn Palmqvist
Adam Radic
Quirin Furgut
James Martin
Joe Giannetti
Ziemowit Skwara
Hugh Kopsen
Alex Main
Brad Reinhold
David Destefanis
Kyle Mclean
Mason Gilligan

Saturday 10am EST: HEAT #2: Your tournament director will be Tournament Committee Member Bill Kafer (TacoBill)

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Justin Miyashiro
David Woods
Casey Johnson
Sam Tashima
Gavin Ortlund
Erich Hawbaker
Edward Chien
Matt Scott
Samuel Stearns
Wayne Cullen
Adam Fletcher
Jon McFarland
Nick Culpepper
Chris Wirfs
Chris Peterson
Chris Terwilliger
Garrett Larson
Brad Kippel
Jarad Konsker
Joe Olson
Justin Desai
Nicholas Moran
Zach Stenerson
Charlie Arlandson
Phil Aasen
Conor Britain

Sunday 7am: HEAT #3: Your tournament director will be Special Projects Advocate Matt Carulli (quickdraw3457) with help from Tournament Committee Member Casey Anis (spideyguy0)

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Ryan Sersen
Drew Lichtenstein
Chris Kelly
Paul Coggins
Tom Sarachan
Eric Spiijksma
Jonathan Cassidy
Stephen Squirlock
Brett Carlson
Greg Shaw
Fernando Castanon
Chris Gogolen
Kyle Kallin
Kevin Jaap
Rob Hendon
Daniel Amor
Chad Lawrence
Brian Terwilliger
Stephen Baroni
Bill Kafer
Rhett Engelking
Kyle Krueger
Mike D'amboise
Patrick Johnson

Sunday 1pm EST: HEAT #4: Your tournament director will be Tournament Advocate Chris Schoenthal (imrahil327)

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Jared Napolitano
Ryan Jellison
Jacy Smith
Brian Fred
Aaron Kingery
Brandon Baity
Logan Pietig
Anthony Howard
Bobby Birrer
Matt Sokol
Mike Kessling
Adam Trunzo
Jeramie Jensen
Adam Bott
Mike Turner
Alex Hatoum
Matt Harrison-Trainor
Paul Todd Feldman
Vikram Bali
Scott Lingrell
Phil Pirrahanaton
Michael Erisman
Hayes Hunter
Christopher Hull
John Veasey
Charlie Herren

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to one of the User Names above.

[Karrdeshark]

Great job pod committee! Those look excellent. I'm excited for next weekend!

[arebelspy]

These pods are pretty darn balanced, sort of as much as can be expected.

Well done, Taco, Gogolen, Schoenthal, and anyone else who contributed to making it.

And thank you to Taco, Schoenthal, Tamas, Matt Carulli, and Casey for volunteering your time to TD a pod next weekend!

[PaulMyers]

Well said Joe; yes, thanks to those who volunteered to put the pods together as well as the tournament directors. We appreciate you.

[Hayes]

IMPORTANT DATES
-December 4, 12:01 AM EST: All Day 1 decklists (for all heats) are due to decklists@starwarsccg.org

Remember, all decklists will be due by Friday, December 4th at 11:59 EST.

Wat?

[gogolen]

Thanks, and best of luck to all

[TacoBill]

IMPORTANT DATES
-December 4, 12:01 AM EST: All Day 1 decklists (for all heats) are due to decklists@starwarsccg.org

Remember, all decklists will be due by Friday, December 4th at 11:59 EST.

Wat?

My fault. Edited.

[arebelspy]

The edited OP now says decklists are due at Friday 12:01am:

Remember, all decklists will be due by Friday, December 4th at 12:01am EST.

Friday 12:01am is basically Thursday night. So 9:01pm PST Thursday night?*

Would it be possible going forward to have decklists due midnight PST? Probably doesn't matter to the people directing whether decklists are coming in by midnight eastern or 3am eastern, but being on the west coast having a couple extra hours in the evening after the kids are in bed helps a lot.

I only did one decklist for each side at TMW and part of that was lack of time the final night.

And I know it could be done earlier, but life and holidays, but I also figured it's a pretty minor request so I might as well throw it out; not a complaint, just a request. Setting to midnight pacific doesn't seem to hurt anyone and would help a few people out. If not, oh well, not a big deal.

*Setting a 12:01am time is often confusing, as this is one minute after Thursday midnight, but I bet some people will see the word Friday and think they have Friday to work on decklists. Setting a "midnight day X" is often clearer. In fact, I think it's plausible that 12:01am confused Taco himself here, and decklists are due Friday at midnight, not Thursday at midnight. But awaiting confirmation on the actual time.

[Karrdeshark]

Seconded

[Hazardville]

The edited OP now says decklists are due at Friday 12:01am:

Remember, all decklists will be due by Friday, December 4th at 12:01am EST.

Friday 12:01am is basically Thursday night. So 9:01pm PST Thursday night?*

Would it be possible going forward to have decklists due midnight PST? Probably doesn't matter to the people directing whether decklists are coming in by midnight eastern or 3am eastern, but being on the west coast having a couple extra hours in the evening after the kids are in bed helps a lot.

I only did one decklist for each side at TMW and part of that was lack of time the final night.

And I know it could be done earlier, but life and holidays, but I also figured it's a pretty minor request so I might as well throw it out; not a complaint, just a request. Setting to midnight pacific doesn't seem to hurt anyone and would help a few people out. If not, oh well, not a big deal.

*Setting a 12:01am time is often confusing, as this is one minute after Thursday midnight, but I bet some people will see the word Friday and think they have Friday to work on decklists. Setting a "midnight day X" is often clearer. In fact, I think it's plausible that 12:01am confused Taco himself here, and decklists are due Friday at midnight, not Thursday at midnight. But awaiting confirmation on the actual time.

Thirded, with the one caveat that I think 11:59pm is less confusing than either 12:01 or Midnight, as I know I always get confused whether "Midnight Friday" means "one minute after 11:59 on Friday" or "one minute after 11:59 on Thursday". 11:59pm Thursday is very unambiguous, although I guess if we're really going for it, 23:59 Thursday is least ambiguous.

[arebelspy]

Good point Justin.

Stupid time

11:59pm PST Friday night / 2:59am Saturday morning / 8:59am Central European time please?

[gogolen]

I believe the thought behind them being due Thursday night/Friday morning was so that we could confirm that everyone had submitted lists before the pods start playing very early on Saturday morning.

[Karrdeshark]

I believe the thought behind them being due Thursday night/Friday morning was so that we could confirm that everyone had submitted lists before the pods start playing very early on Saturday morning.

I'm okay with it being midnight Thursday PST, but 9-12 is often the only focused time I have in a day (kids) outside of work. Making it midnight EST actually nukes the day since I can't guarantee I'll have time to think about them Thursday night.

So, pushing 3 hours just puts the Pacific folks on the same relative timeline as everybody else. Having them in by beginning of the day on Friday is totally reasonable.

[Hayes]

Why not just make the deadline Friday at 4am Eastern? That's a full 24 hours in advance of the first heat.

Would appease the non-eastern time zones in the US.

As most of the Euros are playing in that heat it should be easy enough for them to remember the deadline is "1 day in advance"

[Steviegets112]

why the * do you ALWAYS have to complicate things! It's * getting old.

[rhendon]

why the * do you ALWAYS have to complicate things! It's * getting old.

* truth.

[Karrdeshark]

That's me, always complicating stuff.