First of all, congratulations
cheetose for winning the SOFT2 tournament! And of course, congratulations to
Cobo- for earning 2nd place and
Asrielly for getting 3rd place. Thanks everyone for participating on this (is it staff, player or just a normal viewer), it was an amazing experience that I dont think I will forget.
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And this is it. SOFT2 is finally over. After one of my harder times in the game and right into my highest peak in terms of skill level. Not having the chance to commentate pretty much any games hurted me a lot personally but thats something that I am glad ended up not being too big of a problem.
I still remember the days when I was on the US missing my fly to my home and not being able to watch the map pool showcase of the qualifiers. Once again, SOFT proving that is not an easy thing to deal with. I remember scheduling all the qualifiers as if it was just yesterday, and the same thing happens when I look at "Mangekyou". Lots of memories, lots of epic matches and a lot of new people that I didnt know appeared in my path during this tournament. this is something that I dont think I will ever forget.
I seriously cant believe that it went as well as it did and this is nothing but a result of the efforts by everyone in the staff this year. I seriously have problems to understand the reason, but the amount of dedication of every single one of the guys in the staff has been mindblowing and for me its something that I really appreciate and makes me feel that we are doing the things in the right way, encouraging people to try out new stuff and delivering a good experience not for the viewers only but also to the players and new members of the "SOFT team".
And as it is a tradition right now, I will type some words for each one of you since I believe its the least I can do to thank you for all the efforts from your side.
Halogen-: This is all yours man. You created this and I only took the initiative to make this happen again but at the end of the day, the only reason why all this exist is you and you should know it. I knew since the moment of the "end" for the previous SOFT that I would be hosting this. Because I really feel this is what SOFT deserved. You put your time whenever you could to commentate the matches and jumped into the ref team too when it was needed. And not only that, you delivered not only some of the best matches but also turned yourself to be one of the crowd favourites. You are amazing dude and I hope you enjoyed the tournament from the other side just as much as I did.
Konner: Team K for the win once again but this time on the lead. You were the one who made me be more reasonable when deciding about stuff, helped me with the applications, listing all the players during the registration phase and checking everything before release. Not only that, you hoped in at the worst imaginable times to do the ref job as well and you proved to be, once again, an amazing person to have in the team.
Daikyi: You have proven once again how good is to work with you and how amazing you are at making all of us having a good time. Your commentary for long periods of time, your dedication to do all the map pool showcases you could and even helping us with the SVs in the pools shows again how much you care about this tournament and again, I am so glad to have you and all this people here working together. Your commentary, enjoyable as always and your puns being as epic too.
WalterToro: The absolute madman. I knew since I saw you hosting the first spanish tournament that you were a dedicated type of person. And jeez I was right. I think you ended up doing the ref job on more than 50% of the matches and that just speaks on its own. You were there, all the time, no matter what. If its 6 AM, 2 AM or 5 PM it was not a problem for you. The amount of effort from your side was incredible and I am really glad to have you with us. I am really looking forward for the TIM this next month and I hope it turns out to be as good as you want it to be.
-Kamikaze- and Tidek: Prykarz Chlebarz i Komnata Tortur ! And of course thats the phrase that was our insignia during the whole thing. You guys showed that you know what you are doing, and you know it better than anyone else. This tournament had an amazing map pool and your combination was the reason why this was the case. From Coinage and Silver Temple straight into the grand finals. It really felt that this was shorter than what it actually was and this is mostly because of you making this tournament an amazing experience with the most quality map pools I have seen in a long time. Thanks for teaching me a lot of stuff when it comes to map selecting and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did and the players did(n't).
Xylo-: I would love to use a Polish catchphrase for you but I really dont know any (or do I...? if you know what I mean :p). You were super helpful during the whole tournament, helping with the schedule for streamers and streaming yourself for extended periods of time and even letting me the alternative to stream on your end. Overall, you did a ton for SOFT and I am glad you found yourself the time to help here because it was really needed. Streaming the earliest times of the weekend and even doing ref eventually. Amazing job, thanks.
laughingcomet: I am surprised about you laughing. Your commentary was a blast and it was super fun to hear and your availability for streaming was incredible too. Showing of for REALLY long periods of time specially during the earlier stages is something I was not really expecting you to do with such amount of dedication. You were a saviour multiple times and SOFT owes you a lot.
adiopulse: Even when you arrived a little bit later than the rest you stepped into the hard times, your timezone proved to be really good for streaming the really late matches and you were there when it was required with an amazing "warm up" tittle each weekend. The laughs after the streams with you were also enjoyable and overall your work here has been really good.
shadowsnoop: And last but not least for the streamers team we have our lovely brazilian. Snoop, let me just start saying that you are an amazing guy and that you are such an dumbass (in a good way :p) for staying awake A WHOLE WEEKEND just to stream matches that were not clearly defined who was going to take them at the very end. Your dedication for this was way higher that any expectation and I consider myself lucky to end up meeting you just before SOFT thanks for the mentorship program. On stream, on the referee side and in any other place, you managed to do incredible.
OsuMe65: I never thought we would actually get all this fancy content before starting but you are the guy to blame for all this taking place. You managed to create the skin of the tournament and all the previews for the matches since the round of 16 and that helped a lot to improve the quality of the stream overall. I am sure everyone loved your skin and you should be proud of it since it really was a great job. I am happy that SurfChu brought you here since you are one of the main reasons for this tournament design quality. Fist for the win!
SurfChu85: You guys and your numbers make me feel really confused but hey, that doesnt really matter. As I mentioned on stream before you are one of the ones that was really excited about helping out and you really did on the early morning matches for most of the staff. And not only that you also took part as the... official mascot of the tournament? I dont really know how that ended up happening but besides everything I am sure that everyone will remember that Owl perfectly haha.
The Europe brigade (plus Ciel) for the main ref body of the tournament showing again dedication:
Eiuh stepping up when no one expected at the most odd times for all of us.
Hydria showing to give us some breaks and helping out the qualifiers.
Mathisca even tho he couldnt help that much at the ending he proved to be really proficient on the early rounds of the tourney.
Steins for being there on the really odd times too (albeit, at least 50% of Steins was there if she knows what I mean :p)
Ciel who even when holding up some events he managed to found out the time to help us in the ref side for the late night matches.
You guys did a really amazing job.
Shoegazer: The man with the numbers, the hero that we all need was there for us to provide once again the statistics and the spreadsheets required to make everything so much easier. And not only that, even showing himself to commentate some of the matches on his own will just for the sake of SOFT. I mentioned multiple times how much I respect you and how much I think you mean for all the tournament even tho you want to say it really isnt that big of a deal. You better know it was, you did an amazing job and again, thanks a ton for all your work this year once again!
Gazelle: Man, we both need to get some new computers or something because this client might be too much to handle! Besides the fact that we never really talk too much besides SOFT you agreed almost instantly on getting back and commentating once again. You did a great job helping out on the matches you could take even with some of the problems your computer experienced. Thanks for coming back and having fun with us in the commentary team and I hope we can talk more often!
The new voice of SOFT with a lot of people this year and let me start by saying this; you guys did an outstanding job this year and I am really looking forward for you doing more of this in the future (on SOFT 3 or in any other place really):
Rem being there again for odd times for the most of us and even with some issues on his setups he managed to come out decently.
Elah creating one of the most amazing memes I have ever seen in my life commentary wise (and yes, I am talking about Coinage) combined with really fun but also really good commentary.
XeoStyle for being there as well in the european times bringing up the hype he had since the french tournament.
[ Vento ] for putting so much time on this and showing up every single time he could delivering the calm commentary (which is apparently something common on Sweden I shall say) and the hate to ALEFY songs.
Guilhermeziat who had some issues to join the team at first but me cordialy
forcing asking him to commentate ended up on him enjoying this so much and providing amazing moments and in depth commentary.
TheToaphster for being the next generation of cursing (watch out, this guy is a SERIOUS threat) and of course showing off what he is capable of when it comes to talking about strategy and play by play (even solo casting sometimes) commentary.
And with all this being said, I hope I see all of you next year for SOFT3(R)! If there is something I learned is that this legacy will not die anytime soon and if its not me hosting this the next year there will be someone else here to take it. For now, wish you all good luck and again, thanks for all the support and effort. I really hope this tournament gave you an awesome experience just as it did to me.