Quoted from InfiniteLives:Just bought my ticket for the tourny, gotta try and defend and improve on my 6th place finish from last year
It was deemed better to have more than one loss. So finals are not one loss and you are out. The lower number of finalists was to try and rebuild the tournament from the ground up to make it run faster, smoother, and less complicated.
As we have success we will continue to build back up.
As far as modern new games with unfinished or flakey code we did not do that last year and do not plan on doing it this year either.
We are finalizing titles for the tourney and will post a list before too long. Anyone who want to help set them up feel free to drop me a line.