I’ll admit: I haven’t been paying the closest attention to all tiers as I should be, but it is what it is. Let us run a quick refresher course on the current food chains in each of the seperate ecosystems of Alpha+, Alpha and Beta. In order not to visually assault you with more lists and neccesary numbers, let us just focus on some of the more important ones.

Team Kids and Fossil sit comfortably at the top, with Team Kids only having tied 1 series, whilst Fossil haven’t dropped a single game at all. The future showdown between the 2 teams will be a spectacle, so make sure to prepare yourselves when the dates are announced.

Olive stack is defying my personal expectations, as despite being a free agent stack formed for solely this tournament, they’ve managed to not lose any series outright and instead of picked up draws across the board. It’ll be exciting to see them going forward. I’d sing similar praises of Omega Pi if I could see a game of Crest Necrophos, but we all know that disgusting hero will be permanently banned versus OP.

Time is relative, and I guess in Alpha, time flows as fast as the signal transmissions in Neru’s neurons. Not really much to talk about here as barely a handful of games have been played. Dusk managing to pull out a tie miwith Grandiose is probably the big surprise here, but Dusk has always managed to subvert expectations in the most positive of manners.

Grandiose and Tails;Memoria hold the top of the standings with 1 win and 1 tie a piece, but hopefully once the pace picks up, we’ll be able to see some more teams challenge the top teams for that spot.

Dawn Academy, Twintails Birthright and One Trick Ponies sit pretty at the top of the standings. That much shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who follows the beta system, what is more interesting is the rest of the ladder. No Time For Name, one of the teams many would’ve written off managed to 2:0 SQUADW, thus claiming a solid place in the standings above the myriad of other teams who simply have settled for ties.

With Excellent Era and Burden Squad, descending from their perch in Alpha, it’ll be interesting to see how this affects the status quo, if at all. I personally expect at least 1 of them to break up the already established top 3, but who knows what exactly will happen.