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Welcome to the Mercedinian Open held in Zoloroni, Mercedini. This is a Tier 2 NSTT event held on grass. As is tradition, two events will be held at this tournament, a singles event along with a doubles event. A quick reminder that all male, female and non-human participants are allowed in the singles' competition and all-male, all-female, mixed and non-human pairings are permitted in the doubles' competition.
They will respectively have 32 singles' players and 16 doubles' pairs in the First Round Proper. However, qualifying rounds have been arranged to accomodate as many players as possible. Please see the schedule below with the groups and the permutations on how players can qualify for the knockkout rounds of the Mercedinian Open.
Schedule: (cut-offs will take place at 1900 UTC on the dates stated below)
November 13: Qualifying MD1
November 14: Qualifying MD2
November 15: Qualifying MD3
November 16: Singles Round of 32
November 17: Singles & Doubles Round of 16
November 18: Quarter-Finals
November 19: Semi-Finals
November 20: Finals
The Top-8 ranked players at the tournament have all received seeding and automatically qualify for the first round proper.
For the other participants, they must qualify for the tournament via a round-robin group format. Each player will play every other person once with the group winner qualifying for the first round. Then, the players who finished in second place will be ranked with the top-9 best performing players also advancing to the knockout stage. The players who finished third and fourth will be eliminated from the tournament.
Doubles
The top-4 ranked players in the doubles tournament have all received seeds and have automatically qualified to the round of 16.
For the rest of the players, they have all been drawn into groups of three for the qualifying stage. The group winner will qualify and join the seeds for the round of sixteen. The players who finished in second place will be ranked with the top-2 from those rankings will also advance to the round of 16. The players who finish bottom of their group will be eliminated from the tournament.