Giant Round Robin Followed By Semis

Giant Round Robin Followed By Semis is the only proper set of rules for FIFPA tournaments.
==History==
Giant Round Robin Followed By Semis was introduced in the 2011 Flying Purple Cup after group stages in the 2010 Flying Purple Cup tended to be awful what with people not bothering and ruining their entire bloody group. When asked why this change was necessary, Deff Blatter referred to his earlier statements, in which he blamed the 2010 participants for " INCOMPETENCE GRANDIOSE et MORE INCOMPETENCE and VOUS ALL SUCKING ASS."http://www.flyingpurplehippos.org/index.php?showtopic=12185. Revenues were so low, so low.
==The Rules==
First, there is a Giant Round Robin in which everyone plays everyone else once. The winner of each match is awarded 2 points, and the loser is awarded 1 point. This is in order to encourage people to play their matches even against FM and to reward people who actually try to play their bloody matches.
After everyone has played, after a specific deadline that has been postponed at least 3 (three) times, or after Deff Blatter says so, the group stage ends. Semifinals then start, in which the top four of the Giant Round Robin play for glory and cookiesFIFPA does not guarantee actual cookie payouts. The individual ranked first plays #4, and #2 plays #3 in what is generally a best out of 3, but may be a best out of whatever really we don't care. Semi winners play a final and in the end FM wins.
==Etiquette==
It is not frowned upon if the players decide to pretend a match never happened because it was too embarrassing for either player to admit that the match in fact did happen. However, they should probably play another match.
Participants are at all times expected to upload Recs. Sometimes, however, these recs are lost because their spectacularness blinded the hard drive.
Not playing your matches is against all etiquette and is in fact punishable by death by snails.
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