User blog comment:Calua/Miss OP Announcement/@comment-4754162-20130910020312

About the question about Robin, Hancock and Nami...

Of course they should be allowed to compete, but IMO Robin, being the chump of the last edition should be given a one time special privilege at early stage (be it automatically granted immunity pass or normal pass to next round is up to you) as a tribute for the defending champ.

About the format...

Yes, it's ok and should be able to run well but where possible I'd expect fresh ideas to be invented. With the introduction of comments voting, it opens the gate to numerous posibilities to "juice" up the tournament like those few I used. The DF tourney served as prototype to this and I think while it was quite a success, it can be better organized.

Not that I am asking you to revamp this now but am encouraging creative thoughts to implement new mechanisms (along the way) to spice things up. Get the gist?

Here's a toast to you three hosts, "May the tourney run well and achieve great success!" I'm back now, so I will be joining the games as well. Looking forward to it. (y)