The roster has been updated for the final time. The count of participants, assuming that I did not make a mistake in the final update (which is very possible because I am very scatter-brained at the moment) comes out to 197. This means that 69 of the participants that have registered for the tournament will not make it past the qualifier.
Meanwhile, I am in the process of setting up a few more logistics for my tournament staff, and I will be working on the schedule in the coming days. Priority on the schedule is slightly lower at the moment being that the qualifiers are not released until the 11th and will be played over two weeks, but it helps to get one of the largest tasks taken care of.
Updates from here will be sparse, since there's really not much that can be updated on the OP with the exception of map pools, but I will be around to answer any questions that you guys might have. I'll additionally be making an update to the OP in the coming days with regards to a few rules regarding warm-up map selections, and the process of the qualifiers, as we will be running a very tight ship here in terms of timing, and I do not play games with punctuality on live events.