Dear JMH,

I signed up for the H2H early on. Why was i not included? I even made it to round two last year against gort. Can you please explain why you excluded people who have participated in the past? Was it a numbers thing? I had been looking forward to this h2h for some time now and I was very disappointed to see i wasn't included. I might suggest that we wait a little longer for people to sign up. But thats just me.

-db

I've posted this message from JMH a few times in different forums... do we need to create a NEW topic each time?

I guess i will see you guys in next years tournament. i personally think just having 64 excludes too many good people that wanted to compete.

-db

I agree totally, the blacklisting scared alot off I'm thinking, maybe the blacklisting rule should not have been mentioned. I mean if someone doesnt turn up for comp day, they will most likely have a good reason. And the person he/she was up against will simply be put into the next round.

like any competative comp you may find.

I can understand why this rule has been bought in..... but at the same time I have counted and heard of at least 20 or so peeps that got cut. and I am sure there are many more. Just seems a really big shame

agree with Marco

I also signed up for the H2H db, and I am also not included

I think more members would have signed up if there was more information about when the tournament was going to start.

How many people did sign up?

yeah someone tell us how many actually did get cut?

I think "blacklisted" is pretty strong word to use here. It seems it wasn't a personal issue when JMH had to use 64 instead of 128 (there just weren't 128 people interested!) . He didn't go through and say "this guy is ok, this one no way" He just picked the first 64 to sign up and went with it. I think that's the most fair way to handle an already shitty situation.

I'm not trying to belittle anyone's frustration over this. I would be frustrated too if I didn't make the list. I'm just saying take it easy. I'm sure JMH is in a tough position here, and I'm sure he wasn't trying to cut anyone out intentionally. He did it in as fair of a way possible to make the numbers work.

Maybe this H2H tournament can become a bi-annual competition. The 30 or so who signed up for the first but didn't get in, can have first priority in the second competition or something.

--chris

I'm really not trying to step on any toes here. everything will work out!

Wes

If you actually get paid, I'm so selling my spot... Hell, I'd sell my whole account and ownership of all the images within my profile for that price. >_>

And I love the category, heh.

I heard it was 63 people that were actually cut. 63.