It's that time of the year again when the online masters tournament occurs. Well, it's a few weeks before it occurs, strictly speaking, but there's an extra round this year so time to get cracking. With the advent of the Apterous tourney mechanism this year's Masters can be bigger and better than before without turning into the epic sprawling mess many pre-apterous tournaments became. As such there will be 24 invitees and a guarantee of at least 8 wildcard spaces in the best-of-3-games first round, leading up to the epic best-of-11 final in the Spring. As always, Standard 15 will be the format used for all games.
If you want in, simply say so in the thread below. Invitees get a bye straight into the first round- everyone else will enter a knock-out tournament for the remaining first round places.
The invitees (Names in green have accepted their place, names in red have declined it.)
Paul Howe
Innis Carson
Kai Laddiman
Jon O'Neill
Mark Tournoff
Jon Corby
David O'Donnell
Charlie Reams
Junaid Mubeen
Nick Wainwright
Steven Briers
Dan Vanniasingham
Kirk Bevins
Ryan Taylor
Chris Davies
Andrew Hulme
Martin May
Richard Priest
Dinos Sfyris
Oliver Garner
Jimmy Gough
Damian Eadie
Richard Brittain
Jack Hurst
Entries for the play in close on Sunday February 14th, round 1 of the tourney proper will be drawn live on apterous at 8pm on Wednesday February 24th and will kick off immediately thereafter.
Play-in entrants:
Lloyd Pettet
James Levison
Michael Wallace
Jim Bentley
Ian Dent
Julie Taylor
Henry Meier
Niall Seymour
Andrew Feist
Chris Philpot
Phil Makepeace
Edwin Mead
Karen Pearson
Matt Bayfield
James Robinson
Ian Volante
Simon Myers
Matt Morrison
Craig Chittenden
Peter Lee
Hugh Binnie
Tom Rowell
Matthew Tassier
Kevin Davis
James Leroux
Bob De Caux
Ross Allatt
Josh Overhill
Scott Gillies
Adam Gillard
Edward McCullagh
Dale Levell
Enjoy.
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