[FractalFusion]

Sorry, I forgot to make a (probably) final post in this thread all this time.

Anyway, I'd be lying if I said this was a great or even passable year for this tournament. Everything that people claimed was wrong with the tournament in 2013 proved to be surprisingly accurate when looking at 2014, along with other problems. Note that this is only the first year I actively followed the tournament.

I found that my interest in Saimoe consistently decreased over time, something that no other elimination tournament does (you'd think it would increase over time; later stages means higher quality in general). This has probably more to do with me only caring about characters with no chance of even making the second or third round anyway. Still, I think this tournament is doing something wrong if I find preliminaries to be far more exciting than anything in the later stages of the main tournament.