This GST was...not great for me, you can say. And it was pretty obvious that most if the hosts weren't that great either. I'll start from the beginning to the end.

So, it was about an hour before GST, and I began to realize that nobody on my team was going to be online, so I realized that I needed to find a new team quickly. I found one guild (I won't say the name) who graciously took me in as a mixed core. I was pretty excited since I had found a team and thought everything would go smoothly.

Well, I was wrong. When the round one brackets were revealed to everyone, we found out that our iDev team didn't qualify, but mainly because the leader was too slow to submit teams. I just thought that the leader would PM an admin or something, but he decided to take a different approach. He had this crazy idea that if he kicked people from the guild who were in the mixed team, the admins would let him sub in their iDevice cores. I told him that in no way would this work, but his headstrong personality resulted in me being kicked ten minutes before the GST started.

I was pretty mad and a little disappointed, since at that point that meant I would be watching the GST. So I just dealt with it and waited for the GST to begin. But mostly I was still amazed at the incompetence of the leader. I just went with it.

So the GST began with Alumni beating Surf round 1. (I believe it was iDev?) I wasn't surprised since I was pretty convinced that Alumni would win. But then when I went to ask Surf what the odds were, some members (and that includes Squiggles) stated that they hadn't even sparred Alumni. Squiggles was pretty mad since she wanted to win so badly, and I told her that maybe things would have been different if she hadn't changed guilds so much. Like, seriously. She still had the name of her old GST team in her status. I'm pretty sure she was in five different guilds or something. She got pretty mad at this and she told me that they lost because Alumni was full of laggers (even after she told me that they never sparred Alumni.) I told her that a minute ago she had told me they had never sparred Alumni, and she replied with "Hi blocked." Okay, whatever. She knows she was caught red-handed.

More rounds began, and most of my predictions were correct. After a while, round 2 for the iDevice teams began, but not for mixed. There was only one round left for mixed, when I realized that it was the guild that had kicked me against some other guild. I assumed that some sort of dispute was going on with my old guild, and after a while they were disqualified. Why? Because the admin didn't let them sub in un-registered members, which makes sense. So after kicking two core members from mixed (including me) they only had three left (no subs) and could not spar with three members. Therefore, they were disqualified.

I asked a couple of members if this is what happened, and they confirmed it. Now, you probably would've done the same, so I'm going to be honest here. I PMed the leader of my old guild telling him that I had been right and he should've listened to me. He, of course, ignored me, but I already knew that he was feeling bad and felt embarrassed that he caused that. Hope he learned a lesson about listening to others, sometimes, and not just his own opinion.

So that's pretty much how my GST went. The rest of the day presumed of me watching matches, following the GST recorder around, listening to rants, and then leaving before the semi-finals of the idev tournament began.

Speaking of rants, later that day I PMed the leader of Espiritu who had posted something about "his guild should have had better." I asked him what happened, and he told me about the Unknown and Espiritu match. They told Yurieru had messed up and that "admins should learn to count to one before applying" or something like that. I PMed Yurieru, who was on his player account, telling him that he had messed up in the GST. He asked me when, and I'm told him during the Unknown and Espiritu match. Here's what I got back: "The person who hosted that was Leah, but they don't listen."

So either Espiritu can't tell the difference between two admins, or Yurieru is trying to frame his fellow admin friend. If that's the guess, then shame on him. I'm going to investigate more into this a little later today and find out what really happened.