Preliminary Circuit: 60s Murky Swamp

The Preliminary Circuit: 60s Murky Swamp tournament is the second of two season 15 tournaments hosted by the official Arcanists 2 Discord Server. It is the sixth and final tournament in the preliminary circuit, a 6-tournament circuit which will be held to calibrate a future system built around tournament ELO.
==Format==
*Participants
**Open sign ups on the Arcanists 2 discord server.
**44 total participants.
*Group Stage
**4 players per group.
**Top 3 players from each group advance to the knockout stage.
**All matches are BO1.
*Knockout Stage
**Double Elimination Knockout Stage.
**All Winner's Bracket games are BO3.
**All Loser's Bracket games are BO1, except for the Loser's Bracket Finals, which is BO3.
**Grand Finals is BO5, with Winner's Bracket finalist given first turn advantage for Games 1 & 3.
==Settings==
Individual Tournament (1v1)
*Default settings:
**60 seconds
**Map: Murky Swamp
==Placements==
Place 	Participant 		 	
1st 	MarcoAurelias		 	
2nd 	Nevets H 		 	
3rd 	Tiger 		 	
4th 	no ret 		 	
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-	5th-6th	Str Power Dx
Proz 	 		5th-6th	
7th-8th 	i 		 	
7th-8th 	gol 		 	
9th-12th 	Zartak 		 	
9th-12th 	Harpocrates 		 	
9th-12th 	La Spork 		 	
9th-12th 	Inc 		 	
13th-16th 	Pain 		 	
13th-16th 	seto kaiba 		 	
13th-16th 	Kalaise 		 	
13th-16th 	Siggy 		 	
17th-24th 	Final Flare 		 	
17th-24th 	TheMightyMike		 	
17th-24th 	Coeval 		 	
17th-24th 	MileyyHannah 		 	
17th-24th 	deivius1 		 	
17th-24th 	Reck iLt Tub 		 	
17th-24th 	Whicker 		 	
17th-24th 	clint 		 	
25th-30th 	Hands99 		 	
25th-30th 	Daeona 		 	
25th-30th 	Arkeiro 		 	
25th-30th 	Rngstring 		 	
25th-30th 	XGOD 		 	
25th-30th 	Highlarious 		 	
31st-38th 	S R B I J A 		 	
31st-38th 	Strelizia 		 	
31st-38th 	archibald 		 	
31st-38th 	CommunistMage		 	
31st-38th 	XII 		 	
31st-38th 	60G OD 		 	
31st-38th 	Lukas Timothy		 	
31st-38th 	Dank Wizard 		 	
DQ (39th-44th)	Riggy 		 	
DQ (39th-44th)	its greek 		 	
DQ (39th-44th)	Capt Smiggles		 	
DQ (39th-44th)	top1bug 		 	
DQ (39th-44th)	Skulls 		 	
DQ (39th-44th)	Lyn Pepper 		 	
==Participants==
Below is a list of participants based on their in-game names, arranged in alphabetical order:
#60G OD
#archibald
#Arkeiro
#Capt Smiggles
#clint
#Coeval
#CommunistMage
#Daeona
#Dank Wizard
#deivius1
#Final Flare
#gol
#Hands99
#Harpocrates
#Highlarious
#i
#Inc
#its greek
#Kalaise
#La Spork
#Lukas Timothy
#Lyn Pepper
#MarcoAurelias
#MileyyHannah
#Nevets H
#no ret
#Pain
#Proz
#Reck iLt Tub
#Riggy
#Rngstring
#seto kaiba
#Siggy
#Skulls
#S R B I J A
#Strelizia
#Str Power Dx
#TheMightyMike
#Tiger
#top1bug
#Whicker
#XGOD
#XII
#Zartak
==Seeding==
The first factor in seeding was based on the time zones of the participants. Participants indicated upon signing up for the tournament whether their time zone was closest to the North America (NA), Europe (EU), or Australia (AUS). Afterwards, the participants were placed into groups based on their selected time zone.
The second factor in seeding was based on a soft rating split of 1250. If players fit this criteria, they generally were placed in pool 2. There were other factors that determined players' placement as well, most notably whether the player is a long-time veteran of the game or not. After the pools are set up, players from pool #2 will be placed in groups in a way that they are guaranteed to play one another for the group stage.
The third and final factor in seeding was based on tournament ELO in the 30s+ category. Out of the participants who registered, the top 9 players based off of tournament ELO in the 30s+ category were split into different groups from each other, with the time zone factor still being in consideration for group placements. The only exception to this rule was within the EU group placements, due to 4 of the top 9 players in tournament ELO having signed up being from EU, and group sizes being only 4 players per group. This is the first time that tournament ELO was factored into seeding in the history of Arcanists 2 tournaments.
Pool #1 (Top 9 ELO)	Pool #1 (NA)	Pool #1 (EU)	Pool #1 (AUS)	Pool #2
(AUS) clint - 1125
(EU) deivius1 - 1216
(EU) MarcoAurelias - 1212
(NA) Highlarious - 1048
(NA) Nevets H - 1269
(NA) no ret - 1084
(NA) seto kaiba - 1119
(NA) Str Power Dx - 1149
(NA) Tiger - 1362	archibald
Coeval
CommunistMage
Dank Wizard
gol
Harpocrates
i
Inc
Kalaise
Lukas Timothy
MileyyHannah
Proz
Reck iLt Tub
S R B I J A
Strelizia
Whicker
Zartak	Arkeiro
its greek
Pain
Siggy
XGOD
XII	Daeona
Rngstring
Riggy	60G OD
Capt Smiggles
Final Flare
Lyn Pepper
Hands99
Skulls
TheMightyMike
top1bug
==Results==
===Group Stage===
Group A:
1	Rngstring	2-0
2	clint 	2-1
3	Daeona 	1-2
4	Riggy 	DQ
Group B:
1	Siggy 	2-0
2	deivius1 	2-1
3	Arkeiro 	1-2
4	its greek	DQ
Group C:
1	MarcoAurelias	2-0
2	Pain 	2-1
3	XGOD 	1-2
4	XII 	0-2
Group D:
1	Tiger 	2-0
2	gol 	2-1
3	Proz 	1-2
4	archibald	0-2
Group E:
1	Harpocrates 	2-0
2	Nevets H 	2-1
3	Whicker 	1-2
4	Lukas Timothy	0-2
Group F:
1	Str Power Dx	2-0
2	Reck iLt Tub	2-1
3	i 	1-2
4	Strelizia 	0-2
Group G:
1	Inc 	2-0
2	no ret 	2-1
3	Zartak 	1-2
4	Dank Wizard	0-2
Group H:
1	Coeval 	2-0
2	MileyyHannah	2-1
3	seto kaiba 	1-2
4	S R B I J A 	0-2
Group I:
1	La Spork 	2-0
2	Kalaise 	2-1
3	Highlarious 	1-2
4	CommunistMage	0-2
Group J:
1	Final Flare 	2-0
2	Hands99 	2-1
3	TheMightyMike	1-2
4	60G OD 	0-2
===Knockout Stage===
Bracket will be shown here once tournament brackets are set up for the wiki.