The Pirate Training Academy [Winner: tanjyr]

[drake_pk7]

sign me up

[anamainiacks]

Updated till drake.

[ultraman]

count me in

[blacky44]

Im in

[Spinal]

Yarrrr

I be ready to raise the jack matey

[Jackofalltrades]

in please. me days of ridin many a metro train while sleepin will pay off in the open ocean

[denkel]

in

thx

[anamainiacks]

Updated till denkel 10 more slots left

[Ryall55]

Loved your last tourney, so yeah put me in

[Blitzaholic]

I like this set up and idea a lot but cant join (the finals of freestyle would cripple me with the holidays upon us)

if it were all sequential i would of tried

maybe you cna do it again some time, same set up all sequential, peace

[John Price]

In please

[anamainiacks]

Updated till John Price.

And thanks for the comments Blitz (: I'll probably be doing a similar one when this one's done, just that it won't have a pirate theme to it. And of course I'll be tweaking the setup to suit the next theme, whatever that is

[LLLUUUKKKEEE]

I like when people work out everything and present it nicely. Plus, cool idea! I'm in

I agree completely. Very good idea. In, please.

I also agree, you know what you're doing, just for that count me in!
Mind you I'm already a pirate.

[killerkern]

Im in

[Swig3D]

I would like to join in

[anamainiacks]

Alrightee (: Updated till Swig. 2 more players and a number of reserves and we can begin soon

[Biyobe]

in please if not too late

[anamainiacks]

Updated till Biyobe (:

[jakegreer]

Argh...if you still have a spot open Ill giver er a go.

[tanjyr]

Hmm looks like you're full... well i'll be reserve then.

[priorwood]

I'm in

[anamainiacks]

Okay, updated and included the 3 of you. priorwood and tanjyr will be reserves though. The tourney should begin once I get the tourney privileges (:

[anamainiacks]

Okay, I've done the seeding for the top 16 players, which is reflected in the bracket on the second post. The other 16 were randomly placed with their opponents using Random.org. Yea, so I'll be using that bracket for the first 3 rounds of the tournament (:

[anamainiacks]

Alrightee, got my tourney privileges, and just sent out the PMs to everyone (:

Let the games begin!

Or rather the lessons...

[anamainiacks]

Update

It's been slightly over 22 hours since the classes began, and all the teachers have commended on the punctuality of all students, demonstrating everyone's good attitude towards the classes. It looks like the candidates on the waiting list will all be rejected.

Much more impressive is that 3 of the 16 classes have already ended within such a short period of time. In 2 of these 3 classes, seeded students denkel (8) and HighlanderAttack (7) both triumphed over their unseeded sparring mates, zissou2 and ultraman respectively. Meanwhile in the other completed class, unseeded student, drake_pk7, manage to out-navigate wrexham, the fourth seed in the candidature of this year's intake, making it the first upset in the Academy this year!

Thus, denkel (8), drake_pk7 and HighlanderAttack (7) will continue on in the Academy in Round 2 of classes. But if any of them happen to drop out for any reason in the next round, their Round 1 sparring mate will be invited to take his place.

For now, the rest of the classes will continue their navigating lesson/challenge till one of the students get lost at sea. Work hard at it!