02-10-2005, 12:34 PM
It would be an far stretch to call the tournaments held here failures. They all started, were maintained, and were completed. The failure would come solely upon the players participating, or rather the players who decided to participate and then failed to follow through. Being more rigid could have helped them move more quickly towards completion, but I'm sure that grits showed kindness in trying to see that everyone got their chance. In effect that kindness was taken advantage of, and thats the problem that the tournies had. The effort, competitive spirit, and fun derived from the tournaments was wonderful (at least for me:P), and far outwieghed what a lot of people have pointed out as negatives. Anyone can speak poorly of them, but if you took part in them then, unless sour because you lost, you would have to identify the overwhelmingly positive aspects that those thournaments brought forth. I'd like to point out that both during the dm and arena tournaments, I had never seen so many people talented people step up their game and get practicing on the servers. I can assure those who took part in the efforts to get the tournaments to completetion, that they have my appreciation, and hopefully others.