Hey guys, it's Doq. This intro is going to be significantly longer than past ones, and for a good reason. After months of contemplation and regret I have finally gathered enough courage and determination to finally do what I've been wanting to do since the 2016 Season started...



The X Tournament Series is being discontinued. That one sentence alone was really hard to type. After having run 17 monthly events for SSF2, Eirin being the 18th, it's time to finally throw in the towel and send the Series off. Since the 2016 Season started I've had more than my fair share of issues maintaining it; and I can't keep up anymore. This being my only solo project; I ran the event, streamed the event, and even played my heart out. But as graduation approaches I know I can't keep doing this.



The X Tournament Series lost its spark. A long time ago, for that matter. After the 2015 Season ended it basically turned into a meme and people stopped playing. My aspirations in the community to have the premier tournament series was ruined. Or rather, I already lived that out and it's being replaced now by better-run events.



My time as the leading TO has ended. When I started the X Tournament Series, I just wanted to do a service for the community to guarantee at least one tournament per month; two alongside Smash Island. Because of that service, no monthly was cancelled since the Series started. Even when I couldn't personally run it myself (Kisume and Clownpiece), when I abandoned it halfway (Seiran), and even when I changed the format because few people joined (Satori), each and every monthly event ran until the end. But as more and more issues arise I start to question my position as a promient TO. And thus I decided to drop it.



I ruined the X Tournament Series. Everybody knows that. I started ruining it when I added Touhou Project characters as both tournament names and "mascots". But that's only the beginning of the stack. I began seriously enforcing the replays rule. I changed the stagelist 5 times. I changed the seeding method. I adopted new controversial rules. And above all I became one of the naziest TOs in the history of SSF2. I didn't want that but that's what it led to.



This is the last tournament in the Series. Additionally, the X Summer Bash will be rebranded. To what is still up in the air, but I'll think of something. Smash Island X: Act II will still be a thing, however.



Let's send this series off with one hell of a showdown.



Thanks for sticking around for so long. It meant a lot.

~Doq <3

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