All right, everybody! First, I'd like to provide everyone with the map of the tournament arena if they haven't seen it already. 

[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/413624537876529175/472079487727697950/Arena_V2.png[/img]

Each team obviously starts in one of the two opposite ends, with their flags starting position being inside one of the small open walled area. The grey dots are the pillars, lined up from shortest to tallest so that athletic participants can use them to gain height advantage and clear the center diving wall if they're daring enough. The dark green patches are areas of thick vegetation, a few rows of light blocking trees interspersed with long grass in order to facilitate stealth, ambushes, and anything else you could think to do with a bunch of plants. 

Now he have our teams! Fighting for [color=indigo]St. Laurel's School of Academic Excellence[/color]:

Andreim/Lise/Samoth
Katherine/Cassius/William

Representing [color=red]Mephisto's School for the Wickedly Inclined[/color]:

Rurik/Bak/Thobias
Vittorio/Yuuto/Christine

And finally, our good friends [color=darkslategray]The Vigilantes[/color]:

Wolf/Naseraph/Michael
Andras/Brutus/Aram

Doing a random draw at http://www.randomresult.com/tournament.php spit this out at me:

[b]Group #1[/b]
competitor #1:	Andreim/Lise/Samoth
competitor #2:	Afterburner

[b]Group #2[/b]
competitor #1:	Rurik/Bak/Thobias
competitor #2:	Andras/Brutus/Aram

[b]Group #3[/b]
competitor #1:	Katherine/Cassius/William
competitor #2:	Vittorio/Yuuto/Christine

[b]Group #4[/b]
competitor #1:	Wolf/Naseraph/Michael
competitor #2:	Burner

If anyone has any objections to where they were placed feel free to talk to me about it so we can work something out. 

You might be wondering about who "Burner" and "Afterburner" are. Due to the unfortunate loss of a player we don't have the manpower to fill those slots, so they are essentially free wins against a group of NPCs of your choice. Depending on what happens in the next couple of days we may have enough characters to fill out a third Mephisto's team, but right now I think this is the best way to move forward. If anyone wants to throw character that aren't participating together to make one of the burner teams into a real one I'm also open to that. 

Finally, I'd like to pitch something: Would you like to go on the assumption that this bracket is for the second round, and that every team in it won their first match already? You don't have to write out a whole fight with some scrub NPCs if you don't want to, I just think that it would make the world feel a little bigger.

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