ESA 2016 will be open from Saturday the 23rd of July at 8am until Monday the 1st of August at noon. Click here to visit the master thread!

This post was written by flicky

The Game submission and scheduling team are flicky, bangerra, Fatzke (new!). We will also reach out to individuals and game communities regarding runs, rules and so on to help us make our decisions as we have done in previous years.

[Round 2 (aka the horrific slaughter) cuts are live!](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-W6FEoFJc9DoVUQvtnPwJ_j1V1WZoD0fcc3FT2GeTjQ/edit#gid=395872361)



Second Round Cuts

So it turns out that it's brutally difficult to cut down our runs this year. Last year we cut down to 229 hours of runs for two streams after round two. This year we could only manage to cut to 297 hours with a single stream. We planned to cut down more substantially here, but it turns out the run quality was too high, so really it's your fault...

Final Cuts and Schedule

We will be cutting down to the final schedule on the 5th of June 2016. You may have noticed that we didn't write out complete reasons for each cut. It turns out that was a bit ambitious, but we will strive to add them over the next few days (so check back!). We thought it was more important that the cuts were published on time, than to delay for the reasoning to be added. If you would like reasoning sooner, just post here.

Now is the time to practice super hard as we will be really skimming the top for the best runners and runs. Please keep your sr.com leaderboards up to date!

Feel free to discuss any of the cuts here. If you'd like to contact any of us privately to talk about cuts, please check our contact info in the master thread linked at the post of this post!