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That is unexpected.

I stressed making those posts for nothing?!? T_T

*violently riots*

JK. Bittersweet news, but I'm glad more so.

@joey_destroyer_of_worlds: @shootout: @feral_nova: @legendary_starhero:

If you'd rather I sent things in for judging I can. It's truly up to you.

@icarusflies: I'd rather not have to do that again lol no more making 1/2 rounds icky :P

Same here.

@icarusflies: No, just going to 2nd Round is fine.

This was a real Nova thing to say lol

@_vex_: >_> what does that mean?

@feral_nova:

@_vex_:

@feral_nova: If you like you can finish your fight then go through anyways. I will even fake judge it for you.

Round 2 will go up tonight

@cassius_knightfall: I'm not gonna finish a fight that doesn't matter :P that's like using a flashlight in the middle of day. You're just burning out the battery for no reason lol

@feral_nova: If you want your fight properly judged it can be. It would mean I'd have even numbers going into the next round.

@icarusflies: Can I drop out of the tournament now?

I didn't mind the one half thing, improvising for lack of posts is fine

Auto advance however does bug me. Just rubs me the wrong way. The fights have all been good but at the same time it's kind of saying "well you posted so on to round two". That's the criteria for a section of the contestants? Not how they fought or how they wrote just the fact they did something?

>.> just my thoughts on the matter. Kind of takes the joy from winning or losing if some just get put through

@vocal: The whole tournament has been full of huge mistakes. Honestly I shouldn't have started it this year. I am having calamitous health issues that prevent me from doing basically anything, and the kind of effort running something like this takes is leaving me hanging on by the skin of my teeth.

As long as things went normally I could more or less handle it, but when there were the sheer number of dropouts that pretty much threw me for a spin. I cannot improvise right now. I couldn't figure out what I was doing with 1 1/2, I couldn't figure out HOW to do 1 1/2, I clearly royally f##ked up concluding round 1 1/2.

I STILL don't know what to do, I want to make judging happen but I can't tell people they DIDN'T suddenly advance, and I honestly don't have the kind of motivation I should to set up Round 2, which I promised people today.

I apologize for disappearing Icky.

@darkchild: Playing with your son is infinitely more important than the KOV, you should feel no guilt whatsoever.

@icarusflies:

@icarusflies: Relax, you're doing great. Lots of people dropped out in round one, yeah, but that was our of your control so don't stress about that.

Round 1.5 went pretty smoothly, at least for me and @Legendary_Starhero:, at least I feel it did.

@arceus_aurelius-rex: If you say so.

@legendary_starhero: Did you not like how it went down?

@arceus_aurelius-rex: I thought it went down fine. What I didn't expect was to advance again.

@icarusflies: I think your doing fine <3

I also really hope you get better and of course that's way more important than this. I just wanted to you know be vocal.

@legendary_starhero: I think you can still take that ending if you so choose. We can just ask @icarusflies: to make round 1.5 count for us.

@vocal: No, I appreciate feedback and whatnot. I'm just in a bad place right now.

Yeah of course! Honestly the more people who actually choose judging the better.

@feral_nova: Do you want to have our match be judged?

Joey DOW here.

@shootout@the_charlatan Do you want your fight judged?

@icarusflies: I'm cool with the fight being judged if @legendary_starhero: is. Not much to judge, it ended in a surrender if I remember correctly.

@icarusflies: That'd be entirely up to the Charlatan. She only got to post once before the time limit ended, probably wouldn't be very fair for her at this point.

@icarusflies: @arceus_aurelius-rex: I'm cool with that.

@icarusflies: @curve: If it makes your job easier Icky, then why not just have all of our matches judged? >_> I'm fine with it, that's why we wrote them lol

Sarcasm Nova lol

@cassius_knightfall: I can't read sarcasm! lol

Thank you everyone for being so accommodating. I'm sorry I messed up so badly earlier, I really appreciate you all giving me a second chance so you can have judging on your matches.

@feral_nova: Its my default setting here in the UK.

@cassius_knightfall: I need to download the "Speak Cassius" app on my computer :P

@feral_nova: lol just assume there is some sarcasm in there and you're golden alot of the time.

@icarusflies:

Don't be so down on yourself, you're doing great. Personally I think we're all more worried about your health than the KOV. If you need to take some time off for health reasons, by all means do that. It's not worth risking your health to get this done faster, take a week off and recover.

Its a non issue, relax master.

Thanks so much for your understanding everyone. It really means a lot.

While Round 1 1/2 is being judged, I'm going to give you all a little gift: Please feel free to edit your bio and powers, with the caveat that you can't do any full overhauls. I trust you to edit within reason. Think of this like a 'pit stop' on your race to power where you get all tuned up and ready to go.

@icarusflies: Such kindness, Ica :)

@icarusflies: that's incredibly generous. Even though I don't think I'll be taking advantage of the offer, thank you very much. ^_^b

@zeon_liafador@shootout@arceus_aurelius-rex

Judging is complete and you'll be advancing to round two!

Thank you so much for your patience.

Round 2 will be set up tomorrow since it's after 3 am right now.

@feral_nova: Good job. You deserved the win!

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... I'll be back, though...