Here is Yasmina first ever blog article in which she interviews this year TWR champions Bran Velvet and Jericho Jordan.
You can read it here.

Hello everyone!
I'm here to give you a few updates on the upcoming tournaments format (and some other news). First of all, we noticed that the 32 players format is becoming harder to manage. The EF official tournaments are something that requires deadlines, and generally games have to be scheduled and played without too much delays, in order to keep everyone engaged and prevent any kind of exploiting (and we don't want that, since the tournament prizes are credits). We're having also situations where people who aren't really interested in investing time in this, decide to join, leading to said players to go AWOL or deliver a bad game experience to their opponents and teammates.

Thus, from now on THE TOURNAMENTS WILL RETURN TO A 16 PLAYERS FORMAT.
This will ensure high quality tournaments, and give us staff members more time and energy to focus on each tournament, and then plan the next one more carefully. As you can imagine, us staff can have irl things going on too, and we want to keep our energy and motivation high to enjoy doing what we love without stress.
However, this will mean that we are open to add some extra tournaments in the future!

Another reason for this change is the reserves situation: in each tournament we need a decent number of reserves, and with 32 players this wasn't always the case, and we were risking to have some spots unfilled in the past. Yes, we will likely get much more reserve players now, but remember that if you don't get chosen for a tournament and you don't get the possibility to play in it, you have double the chance to get selected in the next one you will try to join. In a few days, a new code of conduct will be released, with some changes like a less long registration window (in order to only get players that truly wants to play, but we will make sure everyone will have enough time not to miss that time period), and a more fixed deadline for playing a round (same reasons as above). More details will be included in the code of conduct.

And in the end, I'd like to say welcome to Annie, your new tournament staff member! For every question or doubt, you can ask me, her or 4thDimension in DMs 💜