Right. Here's the top list:
drano019
LakersFan
gman314
G
Jimbozig
Leif_Syverson
Gobbledydook
bozo
Ender
The Ambassador
gantz
BeauLemioux
Wolfman
SacredDigits
thatwasawkward
GOD
nickbar1
fasces349
Spartan22

And the lower bracket list is:
Hominidae
brainbomb
Diplomat33
adammaa
steephie22
ezpickins
mispelledlazer
papabearbrodie
butterhead
El Cremoso
EvW
myLAAN
Vlad the Leninater
Myself538
Ninjanrd
myrmidon

We might have a couple of problems:

El Cremoso. Reliability rating 0
Last visited: 16 Apr 2012

EvW. Reliability rating 40+
Last visited: 15 Apr 2012

Who was the director of this tournament? Was it gman?

Yes, gman.

did that game end?

yes sir.
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=5649#gamePanel

Replying to BeauLemioux's concern, does anyone know who might be a good replacement? Is there any interest in subs? The other alternative is that we simply play 2 games of a 7-player variant rather than 8-player migraine (although migraine is quite the variant).

I would suggest Germany 1648, colonial diplomacy, or find one replacement and play known world 901 personally

could someone re-post the intended progression please?

so this was like 20 pages back:
(myLAAN)
Say we start with WWIV, 35 players. 19 players advance to Haven, 16 players fall to 2 Migraines.

From Haven, 9 players advance to Known World 901 and are accompanied by top 3 from each of Migraines. Losers from Migraines end, 10 losers from Haven play Modern II.

Top 7 of Known World and top 4 from Modern II play Crowded. Losers from Modern end, 8 losers from Known World play Karibik.

Top 5 from Crowded and top 2 from Karibik play Classic. Losers from Karibik end, 6 losers from Fall play Imperium.

Top 3 of Classic and top 2 of Imperium play Ancient Med, losers from Classic Rat wars.

Top 2 of AncMed gets to play Hundred, while the winner of Rat Wars (rats fight till the end!) play loser from AncMed in yet another Rat Wars, whose winner gets to Hundred.

Winner of Hundred is winner since we don't want to play 2 player maps and so the double elimination is eliminated from the final step ;)

I'd be happy to volunteer as a replacement, although I'm not too hot on the idea of Migraine

It's not too hard to find the old threads. All it takes is to go to my page and then click on "threads" and I haven't posted too many threads so the relevant ones are near the top.

As far as I can tell, we have three issues to work on before advancing to the next round. The player with low RRs were pointed out and both of those guys CDed before dying. Another one who CDed was Nigeria who was played by mispelledlazer. I will PM all three of those players and then try the small list of subs I have. Shep, it would be great to have you if you're willing to play Migraine.

The second issue is the rules. The rules for drawing that I had put in place assumed that players would be reasonable and see stalemates. However, this needs to be changed based on the last few days of the first game. I still think the tie-breaker rule is good but I'm open to suggestions on that one. More major is actually getting a draw to happen since we had some issues making this one happen. I would suggest that a large majority (at least 75%) be required. However, this could be a majority of players (easy to calculate) or a majority of centers (a little trickier). Any ideas/preferences?

The final issue is that of how to structure who goes in each of the two migraine games. I would be inclined to simply decide that by random choice on my part, but I would like two volunteers to set up those games first so that I can make sure they're in separate games. Any volunteer? Does anyone have suggestions for how to split the players for those games?

Also, I will set up the Haven Game and PM those involved shortly. We should start ASAP even if the rules aren't totally finalized when we start, since the stats show Haven to take slightly longer than WWIV.

And here is the final structure of which games happen when:
The Tournament begins with a game of WWIV. The top 19 players advance to a game of Haven while the other 16 drop down to two games of Migraine.

The top 9 players from the Haven game, along with the top 3 in each Migraine game advance to a game of Known World 901. The losers of the Migraine Games are eliminated while the 10 losers of Haven play a 10-player variant.

The top 7 players of Known World and the top 4 of Modern play a game of Crowded. The losers from the Modern Game are eliminated while the losers of Known World play a game of Karibik.

The top 5 players of Crowded and the top 2 players of Karibik play a 7-player variant. If there was a solo victory in Crowded, the winner chooses. Otherwise the variant is Classic. The losers of Karibik are eliminated while the losers of Crowded play a game of Imperium.

The top 3 players from Classic and the top 2 players from Imperium play a 5 player variant. If there is a solo in Classic, the winner chooses. Otherwise, the variant is Ancient Med. The losers of Imperium are eliminated while the losers of Classic play Rat Wars.

The top 2 players of Ancient Med advance to the final game while the losers of Ancient Med play the Winner of the Rat Wars game in another game of Rat Wars.

The winner of the second Rat Wars game advances to the final which is a game of Hundred.

The Winner of Hundred is the winner of the Tournament.

The spare list, put here mostly for my own reference is as follows:
1) crixno
2) zemaniac
3) Stilicho
4) shep315

Shep, to be fair I'm putting you at the bottom.

Actually:
1) crixno
2) zemaniac
3) Stilicho
4) nimrod
5) shep315

And, I just sent the PMs out for the Haven game. PM me if you think you should have one but don't.
The game link is here.
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=8094

Thank you for organising all this.
:))

so what about the other game...whats the deal with the migraine games when can we expect them?

I guess someone is going to have to make them, someone who is in one of them.

Some time ago, I have realized that it's not really much of a double elimination tournament, rather a "do not lose twice in a row" tournament. Lose-Win-Lose-Win-Lose-Win-Win is equal to Win-Win-Win-Win-Win-Win-Win :) I can set up one of those Migraines if you get the subs, gman.

OK. myLAAN and butterhead have volunteered to set up the Migraine games. The two games will be:

Migraine 1:
myLAAN
ninjanrd
myrmidon
myself538
EvW **
El Cremoso **
mispelledlazer **
Diplomat33

Migraine 2:
butterhead
Hominidae
brainbomb
adammaa
steephie22
ezpickins
papabearbrodie
Vlad the Leninater

All the players who CDed last round are marked with **. I've given them a deadline of Wednesday (my time) to respond. If they don't, I'll get some spares.

I'm not hugely worried about getting the Migraines set up right away since the stats show Haven to take WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY longer.

Well we're 18 in Haven and only 9 need to go. It's a bit different.

I will have Migraine game 2 up by tonight.

Actually, we need to eliminate most of the players in Haven. 9 of the 19 players advance so we eliminate 10.

Migraine Game 1 links sent.

Is Migraine 2 set up yet?