ANNOUNCEMENT
Greetings,
As most of you are probably aware of by now, the dates for the Arena Cups were recently released, and happen to very unfortunately coincide with the first official date of The Twink Cup 2017. The TC17 date was originally released due to the community's request for a specific date, so teams could start preparations.
Unfortunately, it so happened that Blizzard decided to announce both their next cups on 29th of July and 5th of August. It's in both Twinking, XPOff and NWLs best interest to have as many people watching the tournament as possible, to spread the word and hopefully entice people to come play the bracket, get more players and evolve the scene.
One could argue it was a hasty decision to put an official date before the official word of the Arena Cups, but we were not aware of when those were going to be announced, and therefore made the decision to put a date. This turned out to be a bad call, and we apologize sincerely for that.
Hosting the Twink Cup when a major official tournament is on, saturating an entire section - compelling most streamers to host it instead of streaming - it seems conflicting if not out right silly to host a tournament on that specific date.
Thus the new date for Twink Cup 2017 will be the 11th and 12th of August (Pushed a week), with the arena tournament happening on the 10th.
To anyone who won't be able to participate on this specific date, we're sorry. It's really tough to accommodate everyone, and hopefully not too many people are affected by this.
We feel that still having 2 months to sort things out, should be more than adequate in most situations.
Best regards,
and hopefully happy TC17!,
- THE NWL