My apologies for the delay in updates.
During my holidays, several games and two tournaments finished.
SNinja offset an otherwise poor performance by grabbing the Blitzkrieg Bork cup (and potentially a Clan League win). Meanwhile,
FCC grabbed the Timid Lands cup, while also still playing the finals in the remaining 2 cycle 1 cups: against Masters for Szeuropa and against CORP for Volcano Islands. So unless CORP plays spoiler, either FCC and Masters may soon be the first clan to rack up 3 cup wins.
Cycle 2 is ongoing meanwhile, with different clans currently scoring well early. In most 1v1 tournaments, the semi-finals are ongoing or will start soon, while the 2v2s are somewhat lagging behind as usual.
Overall, Masters retains the lead and will likely continue to do so for a while. Statisticians follows in second place followed by FCC and Apprentice. While Stats and Apps are currently grabbing points in cycle 2 tournaments, FCC is only active in the finals of the cycle 1 tournaments, having been eliminated from the sole cycle 2 tournament they joined. The fight for fifth is ever changing with 7 clans within roughly 1000 points.
Sadly enough, I'm about 3 weeks late in officially announcing the templates for Cycle 3. Please find them below.
Templates for Cycle 3:
1v1 Elitist Africa
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=12537521v1 Guiroma 16%SR
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=12537531v1 Lombardy Swap
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=12537541v1 M'Hunters map*
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=12537562v2 China
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=12537572v2 Volcano Island
https://www.warzone.com/MultiPlayer?TemplateID=1233202*no details were given (yet) for settings and I was on holiday myself which delayed communication. If anyone can tell me what the typical 1v1 settings are for this map (with example game and within 24 hours from this post if possible), please do! For now, I copied the settings of the current seasonal and 2v2 on the same map that was used for Clan League. The template will be final no later than Wednesday September 11.
As you can see, there is still one issue to be resolved. While normally, tournaments would be made mid September, this is not feasible given the delay. Therefore, the deadline for lineups (and tournament creation) will be moved to
September 28, giving everyone 3 weeks to send their lineups. As with cycle 2, I will send a PM to all clan contacts with the relevant part of the message above.
To avoid delays caused by practical circumstances such as these, I would like to renew my call for someone to help / a 2nd organiser. While this event is still reasonably small and organising it does not take much (of my) time, interference from real-life circumstances is unavoidable as long as it remains a one-person organisation.