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Originally Posted by LektorAJ
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I'm putting up the rest of the Sweet 16 up now as there can be no Elite Eight rounds till Sunday anyway as they're dependent on the results of matches started today - so the next three days there will be no new rounds. I'm also going to log off and take a mental health break from this for those three days. See you again on Sunday.
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This was honestly saddening to watch.
Tip: you are under no obligation to "explain yourself" for anything. Writing mini-essays to defend your position (one in another subforum, no less) is a serious misappropriation of personal energy if you aren't actually having fun with it. Outside of "not running the contest at all", I would have suggested either of these options, depending on how you felt:
(a) continuing the contest with no attempt at intervention (after all, what happened was a logical consequence of the rules in place at the beginning and choices made about who entered the field, choices you had essentially dictatorial oversight over);
(b) explaining calmly that AOC would be DQ'd due to the brigading, not engaging in any subsequent arguments past a very minimal level, and continuing the contest as before.
Anyway, your time, energy, and attention is yours alone.