Preliminary Circuit: 60s Murky Swamp

**Preliminary Circuit: 60s Murky Swamp**
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 Participants
 Settings
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Double Elimination Knockout Stage

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

## Participants

Below is a list of participants based on their in-game names, arranged in alphabetical order:

1. 60G OD
2. archibald
3. Arkeiro
4. ~~Capt Smiggles~~
5. clint
6. Coeval
7. CommunistMage
8. Daeona
9. Dank Wizard
10. deivius1
11. Final Flare
12. gol
13. Hands99
14. Harpocrates
15. Highlarious
16. i
17. Inc
18. ~~its greek~~
19. Kalaise
20. La Spork
21. Lukas Timothy
22. ~~Lyn Pepper~~
23. MarcoAurelias
24. MileyyHannah
25. Nevets H
26. no ret
27. Pain
28. Proz
29. Reck iLt Tub
30. ~~Riggy~~
31. Rngstring
32. seto kaiba
33. Siggy
34. ~~Skulls~~
35. S R B I J A
36. Strelizia
37. Str Power Dx
38. TheMightyMike
39. Tiger
40. ~~top1bug~~
41. Whicker
42. XGOD
43. XII
44. 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.

(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
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
its greek
Pain
Siggy
XGOD
XII
Rngstring
Riggy
Capt Smiggles
Final Flare
Lyn Pepper
Hands99
Skulls
TheMightyMike
top1bug

## Results

### Group Stage

**Group A:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group B:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group C:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group D:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group E:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group F:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group G:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group H:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group I:**
 2
 3
 4

**Group J:**
 2
 3
 4

### Knockout Stage

Bracket will be shown here once tournament brackets are set up for the wiki.