Wait, what's this? Week 8?
Oh yes. It's about that time. At the moment Week 8 is still in the planning phase, but I'd like to get this out of the way as early as possible, so here's what's going to go down on Week 8.
Week 8 sees the ending of the first Season of The Cogs, which is a pretty exciting event to say the least. While it'll technically be Week 9 (Because of Week 0), Week 8 will see the best and brightest teams from inside and outside The Cogs facing off for the Season Champion spot. How're we going to settle this though? How else could we? We're gonna hold a tournament.
The teams in spots #1, #2a, #2b and #2c after Week 7 will be automatically seeded into the tournament, but how these seedings work, and to what degree they're seeded depends on the competition. Put another way, the details of the tournament will be hidden until a week beforehand. Sorry about that, we're still preparing.
As a quick sidenote, we're going to have three potential champion spots to claim. The Weekly Champion, the Tournament Champion and the Grand Champion. The Weekly Champion title has already been claimed by the Paddling. No question, their win streak in the Champion's Cog alone deserves it. The Tournament Champion will, amazingly enough, be the team to win the tournament... And the Grand Champion is the team that manages to win both. If a team earns both the Weekly and Tournament titles in a given Season, they get called Grand instead. It sounds more spiffy, admit it.
So regardless of what happens, the Paddling aren't going to lose everything if they get knocked out by Museosaurs in their first round. Calm yo' tits, Ducks. You're safe... Probably. Bubbles is on the warpath though, so you should watch your tail feathers.
Now, any team can enter the finale but only a select few will be able to fight their way through the masses to face off against the top 4 seeded teams. What this means is that ANYONE can win the Tournament. Anyone at all. We could see some genuinely surprising upsets from those that fight their way up to fight the Top 4... Indeed, there are some very strong teams not currently in a seeded position, so one thing's for sure, the unseeded competition is going to be cut-throat.
Now I probably shouldn't be typing all this... It's 8am and all of this is probably going to cause no end of headaches in the long run, but I'm tired of keeping this one quiet. (It doesn't help that Squash has been chewing my ear off every couple of days for the past fortnight) So that's that. Teams interested in participating in finale of The Cogs can put their names forward in the normal manner. Remember: Even if your team isn't an active crew within The Cogs, you're still eligible to enter the finale. Week 8 is for everyone. Who knows, our champion team might be one of the ones to fight their way up from the very bottom. Stranger things have happened.
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Team Name:
Team Colours:
Team Logo: [Ideally this'll be 512x512 and have a transparent background but I know how much you all seem to hate me, so bring it on.]
Captain 1:
Crew:
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Captain 2:
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Team Motto: [Yes, really]
Oh and before I forget I'd also like to announce the triumphant return of Museosaurs to The Cogs after the withdrawal of Corvus. I for one am glad to see that the devs somehow managed to wriggle their way back into the competition. Try as we might, we just can't get rid of them.
Remember: The teams still in the Champion and Challenger Cog do NOT need to sign up. You're automatically seeded into it. Signups will close three days before the Week 8 Finale. More info will be provided gradually, as we nail down the bits and pieces we need to.
And no, this won't happen on the test server. That was a one-time deal.
-Swallow
