Cycle 1 GC and Cycle 2 Brackets

Due to a few technical issues, the end of cycle procedures have been delayed by 2 days. The brackets for Cycle 2 will be posted tomorrow, Wednesday, August 27 (Bronze will open sign ups then as well), and the Gold Coins for Cycle 1 will be sent today.

Bad Monkey Gaming posted on the forums they won't participate in HoN Tour starting with Cycle 2, however we are happy to announce that a part decided to stay. The roster will consist of 3 original members (Superkge, Support, Xibbe) plus 2 new permanent members (Tankafett, Haxxeren).

A few of you might have heard about DONKEKONG (3rd place Gold Cycle 1) being promoted to Diamond to fill up the empty slot - but due to BMG's return, DONKEKONG will remain in Gold.

We want to clear out a few things regarding rules and our procedures:

- points: each team has 2 free roster adds/SEASON after which the 3rd+ will cost 8% points. Tankafett and Haxxeren are the first 2 permanent members, so they consumed the 2 free roster adds, and no points penalty will be applied in this case.
- being able to change their mind: considering the end of cycle procedures are delayed until Wednesday (and their team hasn't been taken out yet), they had time to change their mind, despite their forum announcement.
- roster rules: keeping 3 members of the original team and adding 2 more permanent members is fully allowed by the rules. Only in the case of 2 members we manually disband the team. See Rules - 2. TEAMS, points 2.4 and 2.5.
- filling empty spots: in case a Division has empty spots after promotions/demotions, these will be filled with teams from a lower Division by promoting extra teams. This is done based on their rank and then points. Examples: Diamond is missing 1 team, then the 3rd place team from Gold will be promoted. Gold is missing 1 team, then we look at teams that placed 8th in Silver and promote the one with most points. If there's a tie in points, we look at their match history.