Deacon,
Thanks for the opportunity to help admin the tournament. There's always more I could have done, and I hope I helped enough where needed.
You have done an excellent job keeping threads updated and keeping the tournament running smoothly. I appreciate your efforts, especially after I brought democracy to the old world and changed your plans for the UK team. You've done tremendously well managing the many parts of a successful tournament, and I can only hope that future tournaments in Warband and Bannerlord will have the same level of professionalism and dedication.
A few things you added that turned out better than I anticipated:
- Live drawing for group placement, with over 60(?) people watching the thread as it went down.
- Knockout stage was as smooth as it could have been. I know placement for this has been tumultuous in the past.
- Home/away rules were as good as they can be. Again, the rules worked better in this tournament than they have in previous NCs. Still far from ideal, but I blame TW for not flying us all to Turkey.
- Streamed matches had great turnouts, and were genuinely exciting.
Once again, thanks for all of your work organizing this beast. Hopefully the next NC will be in a new game!