The Grand EoFF Mario Kart DS Tournament

[Strider]

Okay, so if anyone has seen Endless's DS Friend List thread, you would know that Mario Kart DS has far and away the most people involved here on EoFF. With that in mind, I have enlisted a little help from Jowy in organizing the First Grand EoFF Mario Kart DS Tournament!

Anyone is free to join, so long as you have a friend code and all. There will be 24 spots in all, and the winner gets to brag to everyone else about how awesome they are at Mario Kart. It'll be three rounds in all, played out as such:

First round = 6 groups of 4 people, finish in top two to advance
Second round = 4 groups of 3, win to advance
Final round = last 4 people, winner take all

I'm aware we're all pretty spread out across the world, so locale will be taken slightly into consideration when it comes to the first draw. The second round draw will be completely random, so don't be surprised if you finish 1-2 with someone and face them again! We'll get this done fairly quickly, so that this competition doesn't suffer from delays like others we've seen. If you feel like you can bring it all, then go ahead and bring it!

Sign-ups are in this thread, of course, but it'll be nice if you can mention where you're from and a rough idea of your availability. We're going to get this underway as soon as we can. It's all you now!

Entrants:
Strider
Jowy
JKTrix
Rye
Kentarou
Rengori
Azar
DK
Meta-Knight
Endless
Sephex
KH-Cloudy
Lenna
Necronopticus

14 people. Time to come up with a good system!