#lasko wind machine

Breaking kayfabe, you may have noticed that the Round 3 Intermission has lasted much longer than a week. This was not intentional and this isn't some troll account whose whole purpose was to do a crypto rug-pull in blog form. Behind the scenes, a lot has happened in my life that has turned this silly pet project into something that required too much consistent upkeep to warrant stressing out over (the entire reason I decided to do the intermissions in the first place). When the intermission was supposed to end, I woke up on Sunday morning to find that I simply hadn't remembered to make the posts/polls for the next week. I wondered what I would say about it. In my indecision, a week passed, then one week turned into two, until the procrastination-snowball turned into a CoryxKenshin-level hiatus-avalanche. I can only say that I'm sorry that it got this far. I'd like to say I'm in a better position and headspace than I was then, but I know I really haven't changed all that much. I've changed in one critical aspect, though: I decided I'd rather languish in the guilt of missing 9 months' worth of posts than languish in the guilt of leaving it unfinished forever. In the interest of keeping the blog as low-maintenance as possible to prevent further procrastination, I've deleted the loser's-bracket-side-blog and I'm not going to be radically altering the bracket structure mid-tournament via audience participation in the future as originally planned. I'll also be taking one day between rounds to prep for the next week, rather than trying to cram it all in at the last hour when the results are in.