It's 14:00 EDT, two hours and 20 minutes from now.

I am still looking for additional hosts, but if nobody speaks up, then we'll be stuck with you. If your friends (hard to imagine that you have some, let alone a lot) join, write their positions down as well and afterwards I'll decide what to do about it.

I do not fully trust the likes of NintendoPie and Conegamer. Besides, common sense is to weigh all available options and pick the best one after trying them out, hence the test run on Tuesday. I have no butchered Mario Kart 8 tournament on my record, but I worry that today's two rooms might see so little attendance that in the end one room would have sufficed.

ANNOUNCEMENT - Thursday Tournament

These are the groups that were compiled by random.org. The hosts are obvious exceptions, people who'll bring a partner with them or are likely to were not allowed to be in the same group. Today this meant that TheKingofRedLions and The1 could not end up in the same group.

Room 1 - RolStoppable (NNID: RolStoppable)

Cheebee
Technohobbit
MANUELF
ASStronaut
vivster
The1 + ?

Room 2 - Einsam_Delphin (NNID: Einsam_Delphin)

AlphaCielago
fedfed
Ledreppe
Dulfite
EntilZha
TheKingofRedLions + BiffAtlas

Make sure that you've sent your host a friend request, otherwise you won't be able to join.

People who want to join the tournament after this post will be added to one of the rooms, based on nothing else than maintaining an even split of players between the two rooms.

Tournament Mode

Today we will play two entirely separate triple headers, meaning that everyone will play three GPs in the room they first joined. This is not just for simplicity's sake, but also because of the lack of additional co-hosts. There's a 99% certainty that I and Einsam would end up in the same room for the final which would leave an also-ran room with nobody to host.

Good luck to everyone and hopefully there are enough people to show up to justify the two rooms today.

No, 45 minutes from the time of your post.